To clean substrate - or not?

The substrate bed that I have is about 1 1/4” inches or so and I don’t believe that this would br classified as a deep sand bed. I’ve heard and read that sometimes distributing the sand bed can cause issues, and that makes me wonder if I should be cleaning the substrate or should I be leaving any debris on the top and eventually it’ll just take care of itself?

I don’t have any invertebrate so nothing is naturally churning over the sand bed through time.