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Regarding the more modern covers...
While I generally agree that they are less suitable for use, they are not unsuitable either. They would, for instance, make great personal journal covers. Finding an appropriate title for the design would be the biggest problem. The first image, with the blue bubbles, could be used for an undersea adventure.
However, it might still be possible to use the modern images as an intermediary layer instead of the finished cover. For instance they might make decent texture patterns for leather and linen covers. Ultimately they should end up something like the "color on color" men's shirts (if you've ever been into a dance club, you've seen a guy wearing one). Linen Cover 9 kind of captures a bit of the color-on-color idea, although the two colors should be much closer in shade.
A monochromatic color scheme tends to make busy or detailed designs fade away. That is why Linen Cover 10, which would normally be considered too complex for a cover, seems to work. The range of brown colors used are relatively close together. Only the background color is substantially different. When paired with an appropriate story -- maybe something in an arctic setting, since the design is something like pine needles -- the cover's use becomes subtly more appropriate.
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