Oh I wasn't telling you to change the piece, or implying that you were going to - anything you learn from it is better applied to the future than to the past and we both know that.
then it would probably rest your mind a bit to know that when i looked at the piece i was distracted from the emotional content, which quite enjoy and would like to focus on, by the creeping feeling that something was not right, and that the nitpicks as you've called them were an attempt to justify that distraction, not the other way around.
As far as whether to give a critique, it is a fluid matter based on where a person is in their work and how much they would like to improve. I did not mean to imply that the matter is trivial. Someone who draws out of pure boredom and whimsy needs far less criticism than someone who has some stake in it, and someone who is less accomplished would do better to focus on the triumphs of a piece, rather than possible improvements. It is because I would consider you to be the type that settles for "good enough" that I would voice concerns that I have, and I DO get a jarring feeling from the image.
I am open to the idea that that might stem either from personal preference OR from the image in fact being "broken," but the latter is still enough of a possibility that I wouldn't have wanted to leave the matter unaddressed.