If you are a commercial grower or have a lot of garlic that you need to store long, those wrappers are important, otherwise I feel this problem is overblown. If you want to maximize your production, and the conditions are ok (meaning fairly dry), you will get more production by waiting until 2-4 leaves are green. You usually will still get some wrappers this way, depends on luck and variety also.
Thermidrome last year, harvested 1st July, in April was still very solid, and it had zero wrappers from the beginning (the plants were affected by a virus which was there in the seed garlic when bought, and that affected the leaf health and therefore the wrappers).
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