I prefer the top view, but I would be more concerned that you don't have more drawers. You can never have enough drawers!

Did you not notice this before the cabs were ordered?

It isn't too late to make changes ... it will just cost you more money to reorder the pieces you want and possibly take a bit longer to get it installed. Why would you install and rip out? Just don't install the ones you don't like.

I'm with chispa that the lowers should be all drawers. I don't think the symmetry issue will be bothersome, but having switched from a kitchen with bend-over-and-grope-around cupboards to one with almost all drawers, I can say that drawers are a huge improvement. The asymmetrical option may actually be better for drawers, as I think 46" is a pretty wide span.

I think that drawers vs cupboards is a matter of personal preference. I prefer cupboards myself

Lowers would likely be much better as drawers The first design seems much more useful and less chaotic. The second is a mess.

Thank you for your responses. We aren’t as concerned about the drawers
as we are about the symmetry (or lack thereof in the bottom picture). We have other drawers on our island. We are
also very concerned about having 7 skinny cupboards all of which have 12 inch
doors. We won’t be able to get our plates in or out of any of these cupboards
without having to open two doors at a time! We never got a 3D drawing of our
kitchen much less a 2D drawing so we had no visual of what our kitchen was
going to look like. The kitchen designer doesn’t use technology so we had to
trust she would design what we talked about when we discussed and showed her
pictures of what we had in mind. It wasn’t until we decoded the rough sheet of
scribbling and numbers that we got sent to us via email from her, and literally
drew out the kitchen ourselves after figuring out what the number meant, that
we realized the bottom picture is what she designed. Honestly, we are beyond
disappointed but wanted to know from others if we are over-reacting. We
stressed the importance of a functional kitchen – those 7 skinny doors are the
only upper cabinets we have and our 11 inch plates won’t fit inside them
without needing to open 2 doors at time. The homebuilder is telling us to give
it a chance, let it get installed (because he thinks we’ll like it once we see
it installed) but if we don’t like it, then it can be ripped out after the fact
(at our expense!). Homebuilder says it isn't going to cost more to rip it out but we are worried about damage ripping it out could cause to the hardwood flooring and ovens that will be in the double wall oven pantry to the left. This doesn’t make sense to us but this is what we are being
told. We feel like we’ve been shortchanged.

Top drawing has 2 upper cabinets on either side of cooktop that are 46 inches wide with 18 inch doors for a total of 4 doors.

If 46" is correct, your doors would be 23" wide, which is too wide.

If you have 150" to fit a hood and two wall cabinets, it seems to me the ideal configuration would be to center a 36" cooktop and a 42" hood, leaving you 108" for wall cabinets--54" cabinets per side, with three 18" wide doors per side. You'd have an 18" cabinet on both ends adjacent to a 36" cabinet, which is as wide as you can go with a wall cabinet.

Whoops, I should have written that the symmetrical drawing has 42" uppers on both sides and not 46". That was a typo.

In my experience with my own kitchen renovation, the lack of drawers will annoy you long after you stop noticing any lack of symmetry. Why invest in new cabinets that require you to get down on your knees to retrieve things?

Even though the cabinets are in production, you may still be able to make some changes if they haven't made those doors yet. All those 12" doors would drive me crazy. The KD probably felt that 21" was a little on the big side, which it is, but doable and so much better than all those 12". Not to mention that 2 cabinets probably would have been less expensive that 4. Is there a reason they couldn't put the range in the middle as you show? Maybe a stud in the way of the range hood?

Waiting until it's installed to make changes is a bad option, IMO.

Now that you have numbers... 42" is not possible in most cabinetry lines. Lots top out at 36". So matching the bottom and upper runs with 1 cabinet on each side isn't possible. 4 21" lowers would be annoying. But the upper cabs as drawn would be annoying. You have a functionality issue, not a looks issue, unless there are unmarked windows

One quickly learns that symmetry is a luxury in a kitchen. It just plain needs to WORK! And there is no such thing as "enough" drawers...

A range hood is best if it extends 3 inches past the cooktop on both sides...42-6=36...two door cabs should be doable. Change now if your going to especially if painted cabs. There are many complaints of mismatching cabs. Do you have a laundry room that needs cabs?

You can always add rollouts into the base cabinets later on. I know everyone pushes for drawers, but sometimes having an adjustable height between them is better.

I am doing one rollout cabinet for the adjustablity. :). But not 84" of it!

For the top cabinets be careful with cabinets that are wider than 36". The wider they are the more likely the inner shelves will bow due to the weight from food items....