Topping or cheating urself ?

So I have an argument to make if you top a plant it grows 2 more tops right? But there's 3 tops there already so if u top 1 of them your left with 2 that would've grown anyway if you did LST,so your actually cheating yourself out a top.Sure if ur trying to slow the plant down to let other tops catch up it makes sense KIND OF ,but honestly this in my opinion is why LST will almost always produce MORE JS.