Seriously, you have no idea. You say you have NEVER been lean. How do you know what your muscles look like?
From what I see, you don`t even have any veins showing. Are you GUESSING what your muscle will look like?
I did get lean once. Long ago - about 6 years ago to be precise. I didn't get to contest condition, but I was about 9% BF roughly. I had a lot of vascularity and you could see a little even in my lower abs. My shape is one of my strengths. My waist has probably gotten a BIT wider due to heavy compound movements, but my shoulders have widened a lot more and my back has gotten a lot wider. I actually have a better taper now.
I know you love sounding like an authority on dieting, contest shape etc, but I honestly don't think you know that much mate. Anybody can cut and paste stuff or pass off other's idea as their own. If that does it for you, fine. Not me. I know what I am and I also know you're nothing more than the equivalent of a snake-oil salesman i.e. a fraud. Either that or you actually believe in what you say - I don't know which is worse. I wish you good luck either way and feel sorry for those who actually take what you say seriously or worse, follow your advice

Keep retorting all you want, but the more you do, the uglier it'll be for you, since you've given us all plenty of material to work with.