I remembered reading this thread a few months ago but I'm hoping I can chime in with a couple questions too.

We have a single honeycrisp in the backyard that has largely been left alone since we put it in a number of years ago - a heavy snow a few years back snapped the main upright trunk, so that limb was pruned, but it's still continued to grow since - might have even worked in my favor if it didn't grow too tall. I'm pretty sure Hummer gave me some advice quite a while ago about pruning it, and you can see I've unfortunately ignored that advice.

I've had a handful of apples in previous years, but this year is the first year it's really produced - there has to be over 100 on the tree. The apples were hit by hail at least once and some bugs or birds have poked a few holes, but they've largely survived and are starting to turn red.

In order to avoid most of the bugs and critters getting them as they start to ripen, when should I start pulling them? There were 4-5 on the ground this afternoon, and I'm wondering if I should start harvesting. My wife is begging me to start making applesauce or something. Dare I wait for more red, or should I start pulling the ones that have started to turn? I seem to remember the time from ripe to "all gone" from the critters was about 4 hours overnight in previous years. I do like tart apples and I ate one today and it was awesome.

Link to a few pics:
https://imgur.com/a/78a7nKG

Next year, I assume priority is the winter limb pruning as mentioned above and watching early in the season to thin out some of the fruit...?