you are right!
my assumption above is wrong, but looks like it’s working only because the paths retrieved by the Tree Branch component are sorted in ascending order (I mean this one circled in blood)
the main point of the whole thing is in how the “Maintain/Renumber” works, and I got punched in the nose by the following:
“Maintain” just culls any branch that is not listed in the Path input, so the original tree structure is mantained, and that is the reason why the data was not retrieved in the right order