You are for the most part correct. However there are those today who would for one reason or another be critical of anyone desiring to keep a Procumbens in juvenile foliage. My preference is: I like the juvenile foliage and it is so easy to keep it that way why not cultivate it that way? But---that's just my opinion. Just because you can churn cream into butter does not mean there is no use for cream?
In the quest to make credible and beautiful bonsai we consistently make trees do things they may or may not do naturally. Things like producing compact foliage pads, small leaves and small needles with short internodes. We make upright designs from trees that in nature would lay on the ground, we make tall tree images out of trees that would in nature be bushes so on an so forth. The entire art of bonsai is for lack of a better term surrealistic in nature. We are trying to create the images of age and size and encounters with weather in little trees that, in many cases, have no genetic link to what they mimic. Understanding this I find it difficult to suggest that somehow those of us who prefer juvenile foliage on some trees are doing it wrong. As long as you, me, or the Man-in-the-Moon understand that they have a choice, that choice should not be called into doubt or criticism. Thus endith the rant.
Pondering why one would wish to alter the foliage on it...except to tout they accomplished it. (No offense to ones who have accomplished it) When other options for similar foliage is out there. Or...is the scale more dwarfed in that variety being it is considered a dwarf?
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