The team busy with rebranding would probably love to work with a community open to change. You have made a case to change the logo. Maybe the team of the (re)branding project can help with contracting a designer, Snøhetta, or someone else, to do the research and design. Pinging @ZMcCune (WMF) what do you think?
Topic on Project talk:Proposal for changing logo of MediaWiki, 2020
Why do we need outside researchers, designers etc?
See for example Topic:Vord5k1pmg9pe0tf