This has been previously answer. No. It's a waste of time. A waste of Development Time to create and maintain paths that are non-optimal for the job, and waste of players time who wind up ignoring the majority of these trees for whatever is optimal.

This matter was closed years ago. Raising the argument again does nothing but be annoying. You're asking them to change a cornerstone of the game (read, a mountain of work) for no feasible gain (Content ultimately gets ignored).

Given the retentive level of effort put into keeping old content active in this game - I would say an endeavor that forces you to choose to ignore part of its content for the benefit of the other is not a route SE will ever take.