It wasn't a real skull regardless of "design choice" stuff.
Anyway, so far AoS version looks like a sculpted skull helmet, which is dumb af.
Fair enough, but it is a "skull", it's not a helmet. But yeah, the AoS skull does look crappy. It's not a regular human one, and it's not the one from the comic with the weird ridges and whatnot. It's trying to be a mix of both, and it... doesn't succeed. Maybe it's just the pic though. It might look better in motion.