That's true - it is much cleaner without the side badges. One thing I liked about the prototype badge is that it easily distinguished the Comp G from the GTP. The real badge looks pretty much like the regular GTP unless you look close.
Of course, it's all the more surprising when you pull away from your competition when they don't expect what you've got underneath
On a related subject, I'll probably have a few simple mods done this time around; nothing too crazy.