Yup. Not only is vet weaker in general than before, but the organisation of the talent tree appears to be designed to hamstring you if you want to get nodes from different paths.
I wouldn’t hope for too much though…
That is; They know. It’s what they intended.
This is just straight up wrong. They’ve done the exact opposite. The way the nodes are organised punishes you for trying to hybridise, and the tree is absolutely loaded with talent taxes, which sucks up all the free points you’d otherwise use to cross lanes.
As for this:
I’d truly be interested to know what roles and power fantasies they came up with and how they expect anyone to reach them with this talent tree, because I’d love to challenge their accuracy.