@tyoungin - You’ve completely lost the lordotic curve in your cervical spine. A straight cervical spine is called military neck. The loss of the curve brings the styloids closer to nerves & vascular tissues in the neck with your head in neutral & other positions. The curve can be restored via PT or doing gentle neck exercises at home.
Here is a discussion that has a lot of information about neck anatomy & exercises to help with military neck:
I second what @TML said about the styloids not needing to be elongated to cause ES symptoms. The shape, thickness, angle of growth, how curved, twisted or pointed they are can all play into them causing symptoms. We’ve had members w/ normal styloids that had unique physical features which caused ES symptoms & thus styloidectomies were mandated. Your left styloid is thick & oddly shaped; your right one has a downward curve at the tip. Both of these features could cause them to be irritating nerves.