Tom your beard looks good. It sounds like you are spending too much time in your head, too close to the mirror, and this always creates uncertainty at any length. You have developed a great look and now you are in the position to grow longer or keep it here. With your excellent color and great natural lines and coverage you have a lot of options. If you have the opportunity to continue growing, in my opinion, I would grow for now and you can always come back to this signature look. Your beard seems very tidy to me.

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Kind regards,

Greyfur

My journey

In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd. ~ Miguel de Cervantes
Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul. ~ Walt Whitman
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat. ~ John Milton