Well done for giving it a new lease of life. That must have been expensive, but I'm sure you did the right thing.
I think your choice is whether you want it to be a modern bike or a mixture of retro and modern. You decided against disc tabs I see (phew!), but with the contemporary decals and everything about the forks, bars, saddle etc being contemporary, it looks quite like a modern bike.
We can see from the chainstay though how much longer the fork is than the frame was designed for. A horizontal chainstay/circa zero bb drop would generally indicate a fork at least 3" longer than intended, and in your case I would guess something around 9cm static and 6cm sagged, reducing the head angle from c71 to c67. But although that sounds bad, it's still not far off a modern hardtail concept. Provided you have a shortish stem and a bit of sweep in the bars, you're speeding the steering back up, and if the top tube is on the long side for you, so it still fits, then that's all fine, it's just the modern formula.
So all in all I think it should work ok as a modern bike and like you I'd be 50/50 as to whether to make a retro gesture by reinstating the flashes of colour. I guess I would in the end, just provided I was confident I could do it well.