That’s some Neil deGrasse Tyson-level thinking, bro. Of course it isn’t a universal fact. It’s an opinion, just like nearly everything else on this board.
What is a fact and provable with math is that if Blizzard let people unlock Altar nodes with the materials they currenly have without the requirement of needing to do it in a particular order, the progression would be smoothed out over much of the Altar unlocking progess, with fewer instances of people getting hard stuck on one particular point unlock while simultaneously already having the materials for other unlocks that come later. Same grind over the long run, generally less frustration for much of it.