if you were to go to four cross
the angle would be even more severe
when i laced my twenty six inch alfine wheel last year i went with three cross
as it had been laced into a 700c rim
and i am mildly unsatisfied with the angle at the hub
so if i ever re lace it i will go with two cross
the reason yours looks so weird at the rim is because you only have spokes in one side of the hub
put the first set into the other side of the hub and the rim will be pulled toward the centre and have less of an angle when viewed from the side