How important is drying the whole plant before cutting branches off?

Read that cutting the plant above the dirt then hanging the whole plant upside down for the first 5 to 7 days of drying helps pull all the leftover resins and moisture out of the plant, and then to break branches off and hang them individually. I could biuld a shed to hang them all but if I could break each plant into 5 or 6 sections I would already have enough room in a place to dry it.

So my question is would breaking my plant into 5 or 6 sections instead of hanging the whole plant during first phase of drying really effect quality

Some folks do it that way (hang and then dry trim) and swear it makes tastier pot....but I go with good genetics and know it will be tasty rather than try to bump the taste on the backside. I trim wet for the ease of it all. Dry trimming, IMO, sucks. I'd break it up and not think about it if i had the space to do so and doing something else would be a hassle. Others may cry foul. In the end...iIt all smokes like pot!

good luck