How distorted will our galaxy be if we are viewing it from several thousand light years away? I saw this answer and read this sentence regarding the distortion of our galaxy when viewed above the galactic plane:

Once you got to a point where the entire [sic] galaxy was within your vision, the entire galaxy would look distorted, since our galaxy is 100,000 light years [sic] across, the light from the edges of the Galaxy would be thousands of years old, and would not match up with how the spiral should appear.

I am thinking that this could potentially be true, but I am not sure why or how distorted it would be. Does this fact hold, and for what distances will it no longer be distinguishable?
Note: I have thought that it will be well-blended because the distance does not spike, it increases gradually, but I need verification.
The light travel time of 100,000 years is quite small compared to the time it takes the Milky Way's spiral arms to complete an appreciable fraction of one rotation. The arms have a pattern angular speed of $\Omega_{\text{p}}=28.2\pm2.1\text{ km}\text{ s}^{-1}\text{ kpc}^{-1}$ (Dias et al. 2019), so they should complete one full rotation on the order of $\tau=2\pi/\Omega_{\text{p}}\approx218\text{ Myr}$.
An observer a distance $h$ above the center of the galaxy would observe light coming from a radius $R$ to have to travel an additional time
$$\Delta t=\frac{1}{c}(\sqrt{h^2+R^2}-h)=\frac{R}{c}\left(\sqrt{\left(\frac{h}{R}\right)^2+1}-\frac{h}{R}\right)$$
which is a decreasing function of $h/R$. Its maximum is at $h=0$, where it would be on the order of 100,000 years for stars on the outer edge of the disk. Clearly, $\Delta t\ll\tau$, so there would not be an appreciable distortion, per se, because of the additional distance. While it's true that the objects you'd see would indeed have moved some amount by the time the light reached you, it wouldn't be significant.