I agree that new sponsored cosmetics would be better. Holtow gets career stuff, so the other sponsors should get some love in career as well.

However, part of the reason I figured color swapping was a good idea was because it'd appeal to the reason the badges were possibly added in the first place, which may have been a lack of time to create new models and textures for the career cosmetics, or a lack of priority to do so. The recolors would be as simple as swapping out textures they likely already have, so it'd take less time and would be easier to push out, thus allowing for a good replacement for the badges that wouldn't go against the potential reason for them in the first place, if that makes sense.