I like the stark black on grey, but the yellow oval has the
tug of nostalgia for me.

Same here. But ultimately, I prefer noval.

I like both versions. The oval-less version makes more sense, was the first one around, and just looks cool, but the oval version (particularly the stylized version as refined by Adams) is very much the Batman I grew up with.

While I like many of the different iterations by artists over the decades, thanks to my childhood memories, this is the version that auromatically springs to mind when I think of Batman--the Adams/Aparo/Garcia-Lopez look:

That said, I like both looks, so it really doesn't matter to me, I guess.

It does not match the character to have this stupid yellow thing in his chest.

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Why not? It looks almost exactly like the Bat-Signal

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