Nah he’s got a point. The branches force you take some nodes to grab other ones.
I think they overcompensated and didn’t want to have anything remotely resembling the MoP style ‘3 choice nodes’ talent tree.
I think they wen’t overboard with the connecting branches. I’m pretty sure I even hated branches on the classic talent tree, they’re just kind of annoying. What they should’ve replicated about the classic talent tree is that some nodes are low impact, literally +1% strength x5.