Why do I see so many people growing these seemingly tall plants just to remove the bottom half? Wouldn't it save time to flip before it grew all that you were going to remove anyway?

Picture of my plant before and after stretch.

3 weeks ago it was just this.

Here she is 3 weeks later after stretch.

I am only going to have to remove very little all the stress was in veg. Regardless of how long you veg for you probably only going to keep the stretch anyway.