Sitting Pretty?

It's probably a bad idea, but I'm changing the opening of my novel based on comments from the publisher's final edits, confirmed by my writer's group. Had the other opening for eons, but trying to be flexible and believe in the problem that's being pointed out as such. Solution is coming along. It's tricky listening to other people's opinions about fiction. What a weird job this is.

Update:  I changed it back to the original.