This is a great analogy, because if you have ever seen someone without the skill to pull it off actually try to do that trick, you've seen the mess that results
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And still, most of the guys I've worked for insist that way takes longer. They keep insisting after decades that you should just start up the damn thing and start cutting; sooner you get started the sooner we finish.
Some guys don't think that there's anything left to learn
on a long enough timeline, the argument for working smarter-not-harder gets stronger, but as long as my body lets me, I'll opt in for some harder work fairly regularly
Fruit thinning is the actual and appropriate term for that particular process, and it has a fairly standardized and methodical approach, vs what used to be called thinning in general tree work.
Even my wife was hard to convince. She's still on the fence about it. We just planted some more and she saw the flowers and got excited that we might get fruit the first year. I assured her they would not make fruit this year if I have a say in it, and she rolled her eyes and said "oh....yea."
And sometimes, you just remove all the fruit from the end of the branch, when you don't want to deform it from being bent over hard the whole season; mostly a skinny branch issue.