Cutting big fans from top of branches bad idea?

Hi so ive removed a lot of leaves from the bottom and middle area and a fair few from the top bout 3 shopping bags full over the last 2 or 3 weeks. But im not to to sure if it's a bad idea removing the leaves from the tops like 1 or 2 nodes down?
I'm still way to crammed with these monster cropped bushes many leaves are touching and leaving water on each other and lots of other branches are being shaded. I feel I have to many branches there way to close and I've even removed most of the weak and lower branches that would never have made it to the top even if they did there would have been no room for them anyway.

Buds do not grow buds, leaves do. Do not cut your main source of photosynthesis off!
its hard to get this through people's head. Don't love your plants to death.

I understand that my main concern at the moment is mould an pm there thats bushy and tight, leaves overlapping and can't really open them up anymore because no matter where I try and move them there are other branches.

If you must choose. Choose wisely. The plant will adjust and move on. But it’s not advised to go crazy

Some very good growers I follow do a huge leaf strip at day 14 flower that I definitely don’t have the balls to copy. Seems to work really well for them. To each their own.

Sounds like you need a fan or a de-humidifier. I wouldn't go chopping crazy either as long as your entire grow is dry and getting equal light,meaning you should only be cutting away the old yellow ones and those that block out your lights anyway right?, you should be fine.

I lollipop and defoliate the hell out of my plants. I get the whole "leaves for photosynthesis" argument but literally hundreds of comparisons using clones over the last 5 years have proven otherwise for me. I recently netted 5 oz dry from a 19" tall untrained autoflower that I chopped all of the main fan leaves from. The entire plant looked like one huge bud before I started trimming.