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Firstly, are the brifters comfortable to ride on at the postion they're in?
Is the saddle comfortable at the position it's in?
Measure from the saddle nose to the hoods of the brifters to give a datum.
Measure from the floor vertically and the headtube horizontally to the hoods of the brifters to give a datum.
All adjustments can then be referred back to these three measurements.
a) Imagine the ends of the bars pointing towards the rear brakes. if you rotated the bars to line up with this you'd find that the brifters would be sat on top of the bars, not good.
b) The brifters would have to be slid forward so that they sat on the 'knee' of the bars. Doing this means they look better, but may be too far forward, not good.
c) Doing some subtraction may should give you the length of a shorter stem required.
d) The brifters would probably be higher now than when you started, so you could look at removing stem spacers to lower them to their reference datum.
Result should be a more aesthetically pleasing cockpit, that is still comfortable to ride.
could look like this: