This is what you are confronted with!
If you are going to make a transparent speaker it has better be sealed. Ports move a lot of air and dust with it.
I would have thought this problem of it looking even uglier than it started out should be pretty obvious to a speaker designer.
This smacks of design by committee with the image maker high heels in charge.
Here we have a case of dulling rather than polishing the turd! Leave it to the moderns.