As an aside you have a cluster of three branches on that 5 curve. I'd make it a priority this season to remove 2 you don't need.... otherwise you might have to chop even lower if it starts to bulge. Keeper branches should now be developed using regular pruning to get some appropriate structure. If all goes well you're not far off completing the last trunk section.
Yes, managing taper has been one of my primary goals for a while now. Long term, that cluster of three branches definitely needs to be simplified. In the short term, though, I may shorten all three, see which responds the best, then choose what to do next from there. You can actually keep reverse taper at bay for quite some time as long as you don't let the wrong branch run for too long. I think I may prefer to have two branches at that spot instead of one, but the one thing I know for sure is that three is almost certainly too many long-term.
During at least the past 2-3 growing seasons, I've been watching the trunk like a hawk, and if something looks like it might be about to cause a problem, I shorten it enough to slow it down and that keeps it in check. That way, I figure I can always cut back more later for taper, but I get to keep my options open (vs. removing it altogether).
I'm at a point now where I think cutting back all/most of the branches back fairly hard and letting the chips fall where they may could be a decent option, and should give me a whole new set of branches to play with. There are a number of dominant branches that are poised to really stretch out quickly if I let them, so I definitely need to manage that somehow.
