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But Lee continued to write Doom as horribly disfigured, considering Donald Blake's horrible bedside manner in Thor.

As to Doom's disfigurement: I have never thought of it as being worse than that of DC's Unknown Soldier -- which is more sad than horrible in my eyes.

After all, Doom appears to be able to partake of food and drink, and his speech has never sounded (been depicted as) coming though lips damaged with dangling flesh. At worst, his face is scarred like Vincent Price's in House of Wax. Sure, momentarily shocking, but nothing to run to the hills from, legs up your arse. 

In fact, the ultimate disfigurement was shown by JB when the Demon bit off what-his-face's -- huh -- face.

I think it's far more horrible to realize that Doom's disfigurement is in his own mind: Ben Grimm might be unlovely on the outside but he's a shining paragon on the inside that even infants have been shown to gravitate to under the Lee & Kirby years.

But Doom is the other way around: it's his twisted notions of perfection that makes him truly repulsive.

There is a mini-series scripted by Brubaker I believe that had Doom remove his mask for the benefit of a reporter to whom he'd deigned to grant an interview. I'm still uncertain if the almost entirely mechanical face shown at the end was meant as a reveal that she'd been conversing with a Doombot the whole time or if that really was supposed to be Doom himself, almost completely cybernetic beneath his mask.