I agree. At first glance it looks hot, but it's easy to get fooled by a picture.
That fluffy carbon on the end of the shell may very well be from the plug being too cold. It doesn't have enough heat in the shell to clean off the carbon. If you were running a points ignition we'd be able to see that same type of carbon on the upper end of the porcelain that looks like shadows or clouds. A good ignition takes care of that.
That's why reading plugs from a picture is so hard. There is so much to look at and you need to take all that in and get the full look at what's going on.
