I really like that technique. I read about it years ago on another forum, and have used it many times, but didn’t this time (obviously). I’m not sure just how much it would have helped overall this time though, since everything about this grow was a bit weird: from the start, the revegged plants had about a quarter billion super skinny branches, and they never really thickened up to even normal levels, plus I flopped 'em and topped 'em multiple times in a desperate (and ultimately futile) attempt to keep them short, which just made even more floppy-ass branches below the canopy.
It’s funny though, because all of the stems I flopped are acting the same way as the technique you describe, for basically the same reason. They’re the only ones that stiffened up enough from healing to hold their own weight, and they have the biggest tops