They said worst, not best.

The 2023 pic is beautiful and looks really nice. But if we’re comparing in good faith, it’s also pretty obvious that the 2022 photo was taken in early spring when nothing is growing.

There’s surely a lot more plant life on the bottom anyway, but it would not look that vibrant if it was all dormant right after winter like the top pic.

I’ve been using one of these daily since 2019 and it is easily my favorite backpack that I’ve used. It’s been on multiple international trips and lugged around on basically every family vacation and daily trip to the office and it’s in as good of shape as the day I bought it. Very comfortable. The only downside at all is the lack of mesh water bottle holder, but it’s roomy enough to fit one in any of the pockets so it’s not been an issue for me.

https://a.co/d/1dt0D6N

Sadly it seems like this model has been discontinued? But it’s available in various places if you poke around the web a bit.