I styled this leaving almost all foliage in place to avoid the plant reverting to juvenile foliage. I still don't my front. Which front is better?

Hard to say from two dimensional photos. But it seems to me that any Good solution includes tipping it to another angle.

Yes - I agree. I think this spring a pot is in order and the angle will be changed - if you can see the wire - I have it angled to a degree for reference - but I wanted to see what others thought about the front i have chosen - the wire in front vs 180 degrees.

I think it is way to thin for the amount of foliage and higth/length it has now. If you plan on really styling it now i would cut one of the branches of the big Y half way up , giving it a more credible higth. If you want to keep the lenght/higth it is now it needs to fatten up a lot, so styling is not an option for now then

it's actually a lot shorter than it looks in the picture - the bend at the Y is actually a flat/downward bend. For scale - that is a pint planter and is no more than 3-4 inches tall.

I Think lucr commented on proportions and not actual size. And I tend to agree. Bigger trunk or shorter hight and foliage closer to the trunk would look more in proportions.

I have intentionally left out the hard cut backs since this tree finally started putting out mature foliage vs needles - and I don't want the tree to revert back to juvenile foliage just yet. At the end of winter I will cut back and shorten a lot of the branches for proportions - I wanted to 'let the birds in a little' - most of what I did to the tree was done without taking any foliage off, and done so, intentionally, as it's still very early in the tree's development to it's final state.

Idea behind keeping the foliage closer to the trunk - is that as the tree ages you have new shoots extending instead of ending up with old wood that will not back bud - and all interior being empty?