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Any feedback on my first wiring and pruning. Too much or not enough?

Well that?s exactly what I do, after moving it to good substrate I cut the excess branches and I give the tree direction, set up primary branches that is.
You did a good job, except you might put some movement to branches so they are bending when seen from the front too, some of them appear only wired and not bended.
Here example on my field maple I wired yesterday.

Thank you.
I can’t decide which I should put as the front view.
If you can see the dead wood at the top of the trunk on the second pic, I thought that would add good character but then it does look a lot cleaner with that at the back.
What do you think?
That Maple looks real nice, I aim to thicken the branches that’s why I left them a little leggy.

Mimo wrote: Well that?s exactly what I do, after moving it to good substrate I cut the excess branches and I give the tree direction, set up primary branches that is.
You did a good job, except you might put some movement to branches so they are bending when seen from the front too, some of them appear only wired and not bended.
Here example on my field maple I wired yesterday.

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I took your advice Mimo, wired a little more and added more movement, I also think I’ve found my front of the tree. Will need rotated on the next repot.

Yep, you need to rotate it counterclockwise or all the substrate will fall out
But looks good, now just let it grow for the rest of the season.

When I a good time to remove wire?
I read 3 month but is that long enough?

depends a lot on the tree.
With deciduous, particularly when fast-growing (maples, for example) removing when the leaves have hardened is usually enough, as at that point the branches will usually keep the position already: if the branch you wired was still "soft", it will stay in place as soon as it lignified.

So it depends a lot in how big was the branch, how much you moved it, how quickly the plant grew in the meanwhile, and so on. Hard to give meaningful timing.
But keep an eye on it often, at least once a week, and remove it when you see it's starting to bite in.