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This is a great shot. I'll second Dbehrens comment. You did an excellent job with the post processing, especially given the difficult lighting conditions. That's 2/3rds of the battle right there. I too would like to see more foreground, but then again, I never know where to draw the line.
I love panoramas, but I've always found it difficult balancing the width and height, e.g. I frequently end up wishing I had captured more of the foreground. But then, why not just take a regular photo, or a wide angle shot? Usually the reason is to convey a better sense of being there, and/or if you have a subject that uniquely calls for it. Often, though, it's because there's a wide beautiful scene with no real subject, and you want to take it all in. All fine reasons.
My big problem is I'm reluctant to crop panoramas because they're so much trouble to take. To guard against that, I sometimes find it helpful to do a temporary crop at standard photo dimensions to identify where the main subject should be, then freeform drag the edges to widen it. Ideally, it should be widened no more than it improves the subject (or at least stop when it starts to detract from it) Often, that results in discarding large chunks of the panorama - but I don't think that applies here.
I realize that's pretty vague and general, but I'm seldom confident in how/where I crop my own. With panoramas, the best I can usually do is follow a process.
Or put it another way, it's a great photo even though you don't feel great about it. From my experience, that's pretty normal with panoramas 
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