Remove larger leaves to improve light Penetration ...

It won't help.. and potentially will hinder the plant if you reduce it's photosynthetic potential. Is it congested or causing standing water on the leaves from condensation? If the answer is no, don't let your OCD dictate behaviour. Let the plant work as it should. Not only do you reduce photosynthesis (in same cases) you definitely reduce transpiration, which reduces available CO2 in the plant. CO2 is your limiting factor for growth, and reducing that is almost certainly a net negative no matter what benefit you think you are providing to some lower nugs. ATP, the product of photosynthesis that powers building of molecules that require an endothermic reaction (i.e. an "uphill" reaction) is highly mobile. Once it is produced it's simply free flowing through the phloem. Apical dominance is why the growth sites at top of plant take most of the resources, and not hindered by availability or where the light hits the plant. this isn't something you can know by looking at a plant but can know with a few semesters of biology under your belt. I've put my money where my mouth is. Last two grows i made sure to full cover buds with a fat leaf. Not touching or impacting air flow, but definitely significantly shielded from light. Those buds 100% turn out just like every other bud at the same vertical height with similar vascular tissue leading to it... you compare a branch with only 2-3 mouths to one with many and you may force a difference to occur, but any apples to apples comparison will be no different to the human eye. There is conjecture and fact. Conjecture gets repeated ad nauseum and just becomes dogma... like flushing to reduce mineral content of flower at end of cycle.. simply doesn't work that way. Absolutely no biological process in the plant can remove minerals from flower or otherwise excrete them. There is no excretion system for minerals in the plant. i don't know how leaves make food for microbes in teh soil, but ... regardless, only remove a leaf for a damn good reason and not blind faith in some bruh-science. You've got holes in your canopy where light travels through not hitting a leaf at any point.. this is less than optimal. Don't 'defoliate' so much in future. Just highly congested, overlapping stuff that causes condensation. That is a disease vector worth removing.