Issue With Merge Component or Simplify option

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Hi,
I noticed that there is this rather peculiar behavior with the data structure.
As you can see in the image below, I am trying to merge two lists together. The data structure of the lists I want to merge at the moment are fairly different topologically, and I would have assumed that Simplifying the inputs on the merge component would have made them the same topologically speaking. However, the result from merge is not what I expected.

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I know that I can use flatten in this particular case, but I am expecting more branches to come in, and in fact it does not exhibit this behaviour when I have more branches going into the merge component.

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Could this be an issue with my understanding of the simplify option in Grasshopper?

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Ok, I just did more digging on the simplify component and found this link, https://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/simplify-tree , which is a pretty comprehensive explanation on the simplify component.
Anyway, for what its worth, my solution to this problem was to write a simple python script:

 output=[]
 output.extend(x)
 output.extend(y)
 a=output

Where x and y are just the inputs as lists which I want to merge. Works fine when its just 1 branch, and works fine when it has multi branches.

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