if you are growing 4 plants and have predicated your crops value on a very small field. Then ya you might not want to go nuts... make a mistake cuase you dont know what you are doing
maybe start with just some lowest canopy leaves all gone and some inner to allow air movement and add point of light, but a healthy plant will not be impacted the same as a plant struggling
most growing tech is a form of low stress training and is not for unhealthy plants
most people think they have healthy plants ..so their is that too
thier are hundreds of articles on it for fruiting plants.. you wont find any , based on real science, that say it is bad unless used incorrectly like any technique.. the caveat is always to much is to much...well fucking duh... its not binary, its an effect, show me one thing in growing that doestn have a ceiling before it is considered a plant pest(abiotic. or biotic doesnt matter to the term plant pest).
grow by numbers crowd wont understand this subtle but dynamic truth about plants.
