Awkward growths

And while we're on the subject of fails... I'm not sure that this really is one, and in any case it's not mine \o/  :D but something needs to happen with that crabapple tree. The way the tree has been pruned has the tree full of awkward angles and tangles.

Yes, one branch is supporting the other while passing over and under itself.

The tree is also full of dead twigs, even quite large ones, as you can see.

Too late to do anything about it before next spring (although I did cut off some really annoying and ugly dangly things), but I'm thinking quite a lot of it needs to come off.

EDIT: Madam Guru pointed out that my information was in error and that it is, in fact, okay to prune the crabapple in late summer. Yay! Pics will be coming up soon, no doubt.