All branches need to be separated. After the last 2 times I tried playing the game I just never want to see Progress other branches again. Game is too easy to bug out now 90% of quests say progress other branches. I've restarted a few of them and they eventually went back to progress other branches even though the replay folder is missing like 70% of the games content. Last time was with the first bug fix, this time was newest bug fix. The game is just no longer fun to play in its current state.
BI puts in 10 times more work on his product than 98% of devs here that is why he gets the subs and the lazy devs don't. His Next game if he makes one and I hope he does will be even better from the learning experience of this one. Hopefully, he takes the time after this next update and focuses on separating the routes.