I’m not intimately familiar with many templates from experience, but just to encourage thought I’d say that once you stop progressing with a size-oriented program/template to do a stint of higher intensity work to realize the strength improvements.
To use the available terminology: run an anchor.
Thus, with regards to
the latter seems to be the better choice.
You are also not first to ask this question,
to with Pwn replied,
Here’s another thread that’s on topic: What to Do After 1 Cycle of Building the Monolith? - #4 by boge123
Just tic-toc between building your body by adding size while improving your strength and interleaving that with higher intensity work when necessary.
(Picture from CT’s articles on Pendulum Training)