A proposition is to bring back the country flag to the user info and remove 'forced avatar' feature so distinguishing users become simplier.
Imagine that this is not a trade topic, but a newbie post where you have 4 people's posts with the same 'forced avatar', all of them have 0 TG and 0 badges, 2 of those posts belong to people who are seeking fo help, 3rd post belongs to a veteran who gives an advice, 4th is a random poster who is joking/derailing the thread and
all of thier posts are
tl;dr - so you actually need to read
everything first in order not to choose a wrong person to quote).
Seriously, think about what I said. I'm a bit high atm, sorry if I wrote smth stupid, this is how I see the situation with the new design

P.S. Also, my avatar is more tiny than any of above, and it's centered so it looks a bit ugly now -

Why not move avatars to the left?