Honestly, being that "Being a middle class American with a dead end job" is the best I'm going to get. Being circumcised when born sucks. What I want is to look natural, to have natural glans and have my restoration to looks as natural as possible. Sensitivity is the runner up to why I want to restore.

I remember stories of how once intact people, like you, generally gave restored a 6/10 to 8/10 if intact was 10/10 and circumcised was 1/10. This is the general ball park for what you describe it as, somewhat, but it seems that like by the way you described it that you got the short end of that stick. However, like you said, it was worth getting restored. And that makes me think... If I had to be restored, would I like to know what intact felt like at all? I know, based on other once intact stories, that it will be at least six times better. That is six times better then I feel now, what I've ever felt. It's sorta like ignorance is bliss kinda deal.

Though, I have something to say that might ease your mind a bit. When I was younger, like the age you described, orgasms 100% of the time felt fantastic, even though I was circumcised at birth. I'm eighteen now and I can say that it is not really like that anymore. I got used to it. It might apply to you to some degree, but having a drastic change in-between kinda makes it hard to say.

I confronted my mother about this and she has no regrets at all and told me she "had to" do "something" about my "problem". She told me most guys are cut and that I was being immature for complaining about it years after the fact.

Your mother sounds like an unemphatic person and if she was my mom I would resent her for that statement and opinion. I was a bit more lucky. My mom knows that I hate being circumcised and she deeply regrets it. She almost cried when I told her because she regrets it that much. She allowed it because her brother kept getting painful infections, so he got circumcised. No one thought that it should be just be cleaned more. I'm breaking that cycle. My future children will be intact, no matter what.

For my ease of mind, I'll look at other once intact stories instead of this one for motivation. Such as this one:
"Basically what I am trying to say is: Your sex life has not been permanently destroyed forever. My frenulium was removed, most of my inner skin gone and I can still feel a good enough portion of what I felt before I was mutilated. Enough that I dont feel broken anymore."