@cassidy The implication in your blog post is that it has to be different from the foot. What I'm saying is that we should explicitly not do that. A new iteration of the foot is fine, eliminating the foot is what I take issue with.
Fedora went through a similar process a few years ago. A lot of effort was made to ensure we retained all the important aspects of the Fedora infinity logo iconography in the new one.
A new GNOME logo mark should go along the same vein.