Dude, give your sides 2-3 months and then re-evaluate. From reading other guys "success stories", sometimes it just happens from one week to the next unexpectedly.... meaning, perhaps by week 9 or 10 the person is not happy with it, and by the next week, boom! Suddenly they feel it looks like a "beard".

Regardless if your sides eventually please you or not, it seems from your stubble that your front is AWESOME! So at the very least you MUST sport a circle beard if you choose in the future to shave the sides. But it'd be a crime to go clean-shaven with that coverage at the front!