Would it be a visually noticable amount?
Yes, you would be able to see it if having a look from front and side.
Brought this up as I recently had issues with levelling, adhesion and print quality (as stuff still came out ‘okayish’) and did no suspect the hotend itself at first and started messing with profiles, calibration, different plates and whatever.
I was looking at the hotend from front only and only later found out the the hotend was bent backwards.
Your issue sounds similar to this: https://forum.bambulab.com/t/please-help-me/15628/7