First off, I'm enjoying becoming slightly obsessed (spending entirely too much time reading these forum posts) learning how to grow trees in containers! I feel like I have a fairly good base knowledge at this point (soil, light, fertilizer, etc), but have a couple questions for discussion that I hadn't seen come up in my research around the topic of when to prune after a repot.

I have a Fiddle leaf fig tree that lives with me in the mtns of northern Colorado in very sunny S window, it was also acclimated to direct outdoor sun prior to repot. I repotted (full repot, removing all soil, keeping roots wet the whole time) almost 3 weeks ago from it's store bought soil into 5-1-1 mix. Was fairly root bound and I inadvertently pruned more roots than I wanted (I'll be more gentle with the fine roots next time!?)

Took post-repotting research advice to "put in shade" maybe a little too literally and put it in a room with limited direct light. It did not like the light reduction (especially from its sunny normal spot), lower leaves began to turn yellow and drop (see yellow leaves and bare spots in pic) - I immediately reconized what was happening and it is now back in it's usual spot (next time I'll skip the 'shady room' step, always a learning process)

Question:

I have spent a fair amount of time reading all the tips about encouraging a healthier, fuller tree by pruning winters "leggy" growth and then pinching June-Sept. My question is for this year - it being end of July, and my tree "recovering" from it's first full repot, is it better (with respect to the health of the tree) to wait to do a hard prune until next May/June? Or better to do sooner when my tree begins pushing new growth, say in August. I attached pics with marks on where I believe a good pruning spot would be (around where the internodes get longer), I hate to remove the healthiest growth, but of course I've read all about how the top of the tree robs the bottom in the long run. I am open to other ideas too - more or less drastic options :) I'm willing to sacrifice growth and attractiveness right now in order to gain future health and knowledge in general! Thank you in advance!