It didn't actually "change". It was drawn inconsistently, sometimes with a chin, sometimes chinless (or with the chin "tucked" as it would appear to be on the cover to ToS 43, above).
Note that on the cover to 45, in almost the same pose as 43, the chin is "back".
And, of course, in the corner symbol (which should be, after all, definitive!), it never went away.