You're good to go...

Equalizing things for a compare, I think you're at what I was going for with this:



and, pretty much what I got, with the no cutting of the steerer tube:




--i.e., a seat height that is about level with riding on the hoods. More rise than that and I think you're beginning to leave the comfort/endurance road geometry and begin to enter the more upright positioning if riding with flat bars.