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It's not just about aesthetics, it's about safety too. Having the forks like that will put stresses through the frame that it wasn't designed to cope with. It is the same reason that if you have an mtb designed for suspension forks, and you want to make it rigid, you have to get corrected forks. They maintain the geometry of the frame, relative to the ground so that the stresses in the frame are correct.
Your new position lengthens the wheelbase and puts increased stresses through the downtube, headtube, forks and probably top tube. This could cause early catastrophic failure of the frame. For safety's sake, at least, put the original wheel on again...