Our experience is quite simple. Food that is added to the tank needs to be eaten by the inhabitants and whatever isn't needs to be removed. We feed frozen to our larger animals and phyto to the smaller animals and filter feeders. Unless a tank is run real close to starvation levels thereby ensuring that all food is consumed, the failure to remove it results in decay and pollution. We run live sand and live rock to contend with the biological waste from our animals however the food waste is removed via filtration. We utilize canister filters. We also utilize filter socks. We siphon sump bottoms and into corners to remove debris. We disassemble and clean pumps, plumping and hoses.
This is a point that I hope you will allow me to use your question to address.
We keep all of our filtration systems clean on a very regimented schedule. Regardless of the term "Hobby", these are live animals and they need us to care for them. This is not stamp collecting where you can do it later. When conditions dictate our intervention, then it means; NOW. So regardless of what filtration system is used, it must be maintained on our tank's schedule, not ours!! Any filtration system must be kept clean. There is no more nitrate production from a dirty canister filter than there is from a dirty sock, sump or sand bed. A person has an aquarium and they keep parameters in balance, feed it corretly and keep it clean or it becomes something other than what they envision!
But in answer to your question; too much filtration will occur when essential trace elements and nutrients are being removed from the system and not being replenished in a timely or adequate fashion. That is where testing, monitoring and experience come into play.
There are "Many roads to Rome" and in that vein as many successful tanks and ways of doing them as there are people with independent logic, reasoning and ideas. And all of these different ways are good! The great part about being part of Reef Sanctuary is we all get to share them!
There is no tried and true solid recipe for success, whatever system a person sets up will inevitably require them to learn more about what is happening in their tank and adjust things accordingly. That is probably why so many of us have so many spare pieces and parts in a box; "Continual process improvement"!