should I lose the driftwood?

I just put a bunch of plants in yesterday, and spent most of the day either looking at pictures of planted tanks online, or working on my own. When it was done, I felt like it was still missing something.

Now, everything still needs to grow in, but I'm feeling that my drift wood is too heavy of a piece, and is taking up too much room, and some prime plant real estate. Most of the piece is hidden by plants now, but it is large, it has two branches coming off of a bulky base. I had to work hard to get it into the tank in the first place. It Streaches from one side of the glass almost to the other and takes up most of the middle of the tank.

So what say you? Keep the wood, or nix it? I could let my microsword grow futher back, and have a real midsection, opposed to just java fern propped up on wood. Bad side is that it will take more planning, planting, and money. Good side is, it might look better, and my fish will have more room.

Here is what it looks like now (the algae was being really photogenic, honestly, you can hardly see it in person)



edit:
here is a picture of the tank before the plants grew in so you can see how much room the driftwood takes up:

I tried ripping it off, that was the best i could do, there is a thermometer on the other side of the tank.

Poll added! Yes, it is my 45gallon, I'm at work now (where I got this crazy idea) at home I have pictures of what the wood looks like with out many plants, so you can see what kind of room it takes up, I'll post those this evening.