Ok I tried implementing the suggestions as best I could while maintaining quads and here is what I came up. I also made a change to get rid of a 6-pole:


This changes the flow of faces a bit but retains some of the main flows I was going for.
But I have a couple places that I’m not liking and I tried a few things but I’m not sure the best way to deal with them:

I’m sure there is some obvious answer but I don’t know what it is and my trials just keep getting worse.