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The amber indicator section of the lights was Pinky Lai's original design, it makes sense of the shut-lines of the various panels that make up the front end of the car.
The clear indicators lose this, and lose (to my eyes) an important part of the design.
Of course, when the cars went to gen 2 and changed the lights completely they lost all of the elegance and consideration that had gone into combining all of the various lights that were scattered around the front of the 993 into a single unit whilst keeping the iconic round headlamp that was and is so strongly associated with the 911.
Finally, only a single year of 996 had the amber indicators, and a lot of owners of those have "upgraded" to clears over the years, so it's nice to preserve one.