Look, I was a bio major the first time around in college. Leaves are the "food factories" of your plant. LOOK at a bud- how much leaf surface is there? LOOK at a fan leaf- it is a lot larger!

Take a look at the way the plant is constructed. Each branch had a fan leaf feeding it, helping it grow. On each branch, more leaves that each feeds their own bud.

Tuck if you must, but let those fan leaves be! Me? It doesn't come off until it is 3/4 canary yellow or falls of it's own accord! When leaves get old, the plant will suck all the food out of them.

Plants have been growing for longer than there have been humans (either from a scientific, or a biblical, view). The plant knows how to be a plant. Let it do its thing!