This is a forum in which questions are answered for the benefit of the entire group. I was not trying to win an argument so much as to clarify information submitted. You should be grateful for what you are getting for free and simply scroll down what is of no interest to you, IMO. People who take the effort of other people to give advice for granted are one reason I no longer regularly participate in this forum. This sense of entitlement seems to be an epidemic attitude on the internet, so please don’t feel I’m specifically pointing a finger at you.
Here’s what I think you should do- let the tree grow as much as possible but read my article in the guides section about pruning by numbers. It will inform you that first you need to choose a single dominant leader to be the trunk, or at least, that is what I recommend. Cherries tend to produce trees with 3 or more equally vigorous leaders that create a weak union as they push against each other and can break off.
You can remove the competing leaders leaving the most dominant and straight one or you can leave all of them but cut the less desirable ones back about half way and continue to enforce their sub-dominance with summer pruning. .It all depends on how close to the ground you want to start your scaffolds and whether you want the extra work of summer pruning, which isn’t much work.
The less you prune the faster the trees can become productive-as a general guideline. . .
However, if squirrels and raccoons are an issue where you are, you may want to train the trees so they have a straight trunk with about 5 branch free feet from the ground so you can put a baffle up to stop them from taking fruit. Both will sometimes tear up nets to get their food.