Haha! Not sure what you mean but I'd have been against either of those options but packing the midfield with 4 seems a much much much better idea than dropping a cm!
We did the old 3-4-3 vs Brentford and looked wafer-thin. Completely changing the dynamic in CM would be a really bad idea. You could probably get away with 3-5-2, but I'm not sure Max/Wood up front is the right combo.