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That's actually pretty quick...
Whenever you decide to eat it, definitely restart the crown.
Just be aware that "ripe" for sale and "ripe" as in eat immediately are two different things. I'm not sure about pineapples specifically, but I think they're one of the ones that ripen after being harvested. So you want to leave it longer than if it was commercially harvested.
I'm pretty sure even on the Hawaiian plantations they have to harvest differently for the overpriced "fresh" pineapple stuff. With economy of scale most is harvested much earlier. Yours still seems pretty bright, so it probably has a much larger inedible core right now than it will later.
But again, going off memory so look it up to be sure before you cut it off.
So this guy is a lovely deep color and smells like a perfect ripe pineapple, better than what I typically smell when choosing a pineapple in the grocery. Are you saying the core may be large and if I wait longer the core will shrink?
Pineapples do not ripen after being picked. They may go softer, but that is because they are beginning to rot. You need to make sure they are ripe when picked. Source, and also a family member who has been growing them.