Your floor is beautiful. Live with it for several months before you do anything, please.

Inspiration photo looks like engineered wood floors and yours look like site finished wood floors.

Engineered wood floors can come with a hand scrapped finish that gives you the texture and character you wanted.

Here are my engineered wood floors with texture/character. I picked this finish because when we built we had 3 dogs. These engineered wood floors have been great with the dogs and performed better than the site finished wood floors in my previous house. The floors have performed great with dog nails, dog drool and dog accidents.

Your floor has a yellow cast to it the inspiration photo doesn’t have. Also, your floor, which is lovely, is a little lighter than the photo. Have you considered having the floor stained to match the photo? If you go that route, take a piece of leftover flooring and test the stains yourself. No one ever sees color exactly like another person.

Use Bona water base system : Natural seal and traffic HD Raw. Optional is light wire brushing for texture.

Nice floors and view!

The smooth, laminate-like feel often happens when prefinished boards have a heavy aluminum oxide protective coat, or if the installer used a thick polyurethane finish. Screening and applying a low-sheen, matte penetrating oil or a different water-based sealer can help bring back that organic texture.

Are you sure it's not the poly that's the issue? That was my first reaction and now after reading other comments I think many feel it is.

The installer did texture the floor. They put a bunch of chatter in it from the drum sanding.

I agree that it appears there is a poly finish on your floor which gives it the smooth, shiny appearance. That’s what I have on my white oak floors and I love the look. (I’ve thought of it as a high-school-gym-floor finish.) But apparently you don’t love it.

I’m not a floor professional at all but it’s my guess that the poly surface would need to be sanded off and then a duller non-glossy finish applied. What @Zande Willson said.

The wood will age to that warmth. That's what wood does. You cannotcompared aged and color changed oak to fresly installed oak. You have to give in a year or two to get there.

Get ALL the finish info from your contractor. Then something might be possible. At this point the simplest option may give you a matte finish no texture.