You're probably the best person to answer that simply because you know your data. But it sounds like if you know that you won't exceed N documents per index (or averaging N docs per index), then you just have to find the optimal number of shards that will produce the right performance for your N documents. And that may well be 1 shard only. I do think that it would be a waste of resources to have an index of 3 shards and only have 10 documents (or even a few hundred documents) in that index.
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