2020 Alan Lee Illustrated Lord of The Rings set

I recently purchased a copy of the 2020 Alan lee Illustrated Lord of the Rings set and upon receiving it noticed a couple of horrible printing errors so I put in for an exchange. The new set came with it's own set of issues (The back endpaper map in fellowship was put in upside down, several pages have the print pretty out of focus, etc.). In trying to choose which set has less issues to keep (which I'm inclined to do as they seem tough to find in the US, it's now out of stock on Amazon where I bought it) I've been reviewing them back and forth and found the headbands of fellowship on the first set to not be long enough to cover the whole spine. Does anyone know if these are purely decorative on these books?

I figure they probably are based on what I've read researching this but I'd like to make sure as this is a decent sized purchase for me right now.

And more broadly, I'm curious, what would make you return a book? I'm leaning more on keeping the first set. It has two and a half pages of barely legible print in The Two Towers and this headband issues, but I think I prefer two and a half pages of really illegible print to the second set that has maybe ten or more pages of more legible but fuzzy, out of focus print. The first is a 7th printing, the second an 8th printing, for what it's worth.

Thank you in advance!

Pictured: The headband issues and one of the printing issues