Clear glass is infinitely better. I can't commend you enough for these new maps. They look much more like real glass, and we now no longer have random white streaks in the glass texture.
Gold glass is pretty fugly. My personal impression is that gold freespace glass is supposed to look like dark glass with a one-way gold reflective coating, like on astronaut helmets. Not yellow cathedral glass.
Are the artemis cockpits using the new glass shines? I think they look better, but am comparing against my own memory (which has proven somewhat inaccurate at times)