After fluffing this tree it was fine, though sparse and you could definitely still see the trunk. The sparseness wouldn’t have been too bad but there so many electrical connectors on this tree and you can see them even with ornaments. So perhaps with this tree I would’ve gone with it unlit and put on my own lights. But the dealbreaker and why I sent it back as well as too many electrical cords was that the top of the tree was cut off. It was just a stump at the top so no matter what we did we couldn’t put our star on top or anything else because it was the width of the tree trunk which was too wide for anything to go on top.