40 sad and neglected apple/pear/asian pear trees need your guidance! or should I get rid of them?

Your trees look healthy to me. That gray green lichen growing on the trunks is just lichen. Its not a disease or harmful.

To what you want to remove are water sprouts. Branches growing straight up

What you want to keep are Fruting Spurs
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For branches not growing straight up reduce the terminal buds at about the third forth bud so it turns into a spur.

To keep your trees from droping fruit you have to thin the fruits.
1-3 fruit per spur

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