I didn’t see what you were so adamant about with the double trunk before. I do now and it looks good. Once you grow it out a little and get the needles pointing where you want them, it will be a stunner.
Nice progression. keep the extra needles for now and begin secondary and tertiary branching. The extra foliage will just speed development, lots of time for pads and refinement when branches are defined!
i like the progress on this one.