Hello! Was not here for few days to anwer. So the first drawing was actually the best one
Effect of your last (third) version is basically the same as the first one. These upper 2x 40ohm resistors plus L5 coil are shorted=inactive anyway.
So basically 1/4 space setting should be working for you within this scheme.
But! As you will bypass meters of thin wires to/from switches with their own resistances (incl resistance of the old switches) and some other parameters, sound definitely will not be the same after rework.
As we would expect, it should be change to better and I'm convinced it will be.
But final overall balance between drivers need to be re adjusted in some cases.
For example in my case the sound became more clear, transparent but also little bit too bright in the highest registers.
I had comfort situation while I'm using 1/2 space setting where both, the VMRs and tweeters L-pads stays active anyway.
As I had no problem with VMR level I kept original VMR's L-pad parameters (5 and 40ohm resistors) untouched.
But tweeter became little bit brighter. Therefore I've slightly tweaked tweeter's L-pad resistors by adding extra 40ohm resistor parallel to the tweeter and original 18ohm resistor.
I have used one of these 40ohm resistors left unused from bypased tweeter's filters (these close to L5 in scheme).
I have also change also 2,7ohm serial resistor in tweeter's lpad using/buying the 3,3ohm top quality Duelund pure grafite 12W resistors.
This fine tuning brought down tweeter by some 1,5dB which returned sound balance to perfection for my ears and room.
You are not going to use L-pads because 1/4 setting. But if you would have similar issue, you can activate and calculate any of the lpad for driver where needed to make your own ideal balance.