In my opinion the font is way too big. Makes it very difficult to read your full story, and it's too out of proportion with your skill bar text. Remember your target audience is professionals, but people learning to read.
The more I read it, the more I agree with you. I was trying to preemptively adjust the font size (I prefer large text and find myself zooming in all the time), but in combination with the paragraph width I'm starting to believe it doesn't work.