Denied

[saurabhmahajan]

OA E

[Haaress]

I prefer the OA to come later as the masked guy does.

In this circumstance, the use of "rather than" is the preferred to that of "instead of"... So D and E.

Choice D has Parallelism issues.

So, I cast my vote for the OA.

[outreach]

"rather than" indicates the preference of one over other..
hence E