Call me a remix bigot, but I like the last version better, with the picked acoustic being prominent, and that melancholy synth coming in later.
I listened again, "to both." I believe that picked acoustic "sets the stage" for the production? And it seems lost in the remix... I know it's still there? But there is an emotional pallet being dipped in to with that guitar at the beginning of the last/first mix posted on this thread. Trust me, I am a person who listens to music and cries... Usually? It's because one of my mixes just sucks no matter what I do. But your stuff is "consistently" good. You've even made my stuff good? So I know "for a fact" that YOU are one of the men? So while I can't speak as a mix master, or a production master? I speak as a person "who feels music..." And believe me on that one, "I feel the music." (trust me, I actually kiestered a CD for a friend in prison? (to get it to him on a visit.) And coincidentally? It was "I got the music in me..." (AMAZING COINCIDENCE!)
The 1st version, the intro? It's better...