Sorry, for whatever reason I couldn't add a picture to the OP. The tree to be taken down is partially shown on the right.

This corner tree stays, the one to the left will be taken down as well as eventually the one on the right (east side)

Landscaping will be your best friend here. I see walkway , high light it with nice palntings all along .Get rid of those ood chairs along the wall and do some nice deep planting beds there . If you can a nice wraparound entry deck would be a perfect spot for a couple of chairs and also bring the entry to life.

Lol, yeah, those chairs were a project I just finished. My back yard is completely unfinished (like, no grass) and as soon as the landscapers finish that project the chairs will go to their proper home. It seems to me I need to widen the view of the front of the house so that the door is not end of the view. I also thought about some sort of taller, maybe evergreen, plants on the empty wall on both sides of the porch (one on south and east walls) to balance the view, especially as one rounds the corner or approaches the porch. However, my bed on the east side is only 3 ft deep between walkway and the house. It seems that's a bit small for an evergreen.

If you want to reserve the door near the garage for family use, put a sign on it that says "Front door that way".

If you want visitors to use the front door, it would help to reverse access to the porch: switch the steps from the front to the side, and switch the railing from the side to the front. Ideally you'd rework the sidewalk (the one parallel to the front) to curve up to the new steps. Or keep that sidewalk exactly as is, but add some large square pavers near the porch so that people walking up from the street have a direct, paved route to your door.

And landscaping along your front foundation: I'd plant something like a snowball hydrangea, that would get about 6 to 7 feet high, near the wooden fence. Next to it, scale down to a slightly lower shrub, and end with something like daylilies where the chair currently sits.

My thoughts also nickel. The white iron work/stairs is on the wrong elevation. Your rocker should face the opening where people are entering. I think most people understand the access door nearest the garages is a "back door" /family door and guests would come through the grander entrance where the porch is. I also agree the side walk across the front is unnecessary and tired looking. I might expand a paver pad where the chairs are now sitting make a proper patio, keep the walk from the access door to the chairs. It doesn't need the walk to continue to the front door.

That was my thought too - as @nickel_kg said - “reverse access to front porch...”. Or, even see if just adding steps to the side of porch that railing is on so that they can be seen from driveway makes it allowable to leave railing off. I don’t know if you can get away with no porch railing if there are steps on the two open sides so you would have to check that out. I also agree that a wider planting bed and a wider sidewalk would point guests parked in driveway to where entry is so they’d ignore door next to garage door. I bet that when those two trees are taken out, the sun your front yard receives will totally change & lawn & plants will benefit. Your corner entry will be more visible too..

I’d keep all the trees and lose the brick edged flower bed. To be blunt it looks like a wonky-example of what I once saw referred to as the ‘dog’s grave’ style of gardening. It doesn’t suit the space at all.

Yeah. It's ok be blunt. It's basically all large tree roots there. That's why the original owners put it there. I'll have to get someone over to tell me if they think I can put grass there.