Did someone say "topology guru"? :D This looks very nice overall! And you did a pretty good job at keeping the polycount reasonably low. However, it looks like you've been very conservative with using triangles and you went out of your way more than once to ensure an almost full-quad topology. That can hurt your polycount!…
@jacopoS Wow! Thank you so much for all the helpful feedback! I feel like the 5 subdivisions instead of 8 is so obvious now that you pointed it out, haha! Deleting two loops already brought it down to 5784! I don't know why but I always stayed away from triangles, maybe because I don't fully understand how to utilize them.…