Planted two years ago. The original leader retired and lots of other branches started pointing up. There is one successor looking good but there were two more right next to it that were about equal in length. This tree is already quite tall, so I wanted to solve this while I can still easily reach it.

I pruned the two biggest competitors, only removing a few inches from them.

1.) Should I prune more than just a couple inches of the two competitors?
2.) Should I prune back a few of the other crazy long ones that are a bit lower down?