I rode for about 2 months before I decided I really needed to get a shorter-reach stem.

Maybe give yourself a little riding time to check it out?

The way each of my bikes is set up now, yes, the bar blocks my veiw of the hub when my hands are one the hoods. With the old stems, I felt stretched out.

(I did this with both my bikes: one now has a quilled Nitto Technomic stem, the other has a threadless Dimension 130-degree stem.)