The outside edge of your chainguide or "cage" as most call it should be on a parallel plane with your chainrings. Kinda hard to see from the picture whether yours is or isn't. The inside of the cage is heavily ramped to help with shifting to the large ring, the outside just has a lip to push it off the large ring so it has a more regular face on the outside.

I agree that the cage is very close to your rear tire, it looks as though you probably get some chain rub in lowest gearing unless you still have the room to trim. I run my tires within about 2 mm of my chainstays without any problem so you are probably fine as long as you have strong and true wheels.

The question is whether the front mech is working properly.