Is first impressions — what would you do?

Mostly thinking out loud — feel free to push back hard. I tried three different approaches and none of them felt quite right. There is a lot of conflicting advice online and most of it is from 2019.

I tried three different approaches and none of them felt quite right. Maybe an unpopular opinion but here we go. Not sure if this is the right place to ask, mods please remove if it is not.