Hello @MizukiShiina and welcome to the LE Community.
You are facing a issue that annoys me a lot as well.
I did report this very elaborately in the past and @EHG_Mike2 did share some insight in why this is happening.
I am not entirely sure if this will get “fixed” or at least changed in a way to make it less impactful.
If you are intersted here is my initial thread:
I think this is a issue that a vast majority of people do not face, because it only really come into play, once you don’t only want to defeat the highest shade possible but really want to discover as much of a echo web as possible to make the best use out of both Vessels (the more uncovered echeos you have, the more impact each individual Vessel has)
So I do understand that this is not priority for the devs, but I really really hope they cna look into this at a later point.
Since the introduction of legendaries in 0.8.4 this became even more of an issue, because really high end farming for Exalted/Unique nodes become a lot more interesting and worhtwhile. (Having 10-20 Specific Unique/Set item nodes discoverd simultaneously makes using Vessels sooo impactful)
For me personally its less about if 2x 4 or 1x 8 linear paths are more or less annoying, but its about the fudnamental system of MoF not being as fun anymore.
Echo modifiers are very impactful, especially on high corruption and being able to navigate the echo web and evalute different possible path with the best rewards/risk/difficulty ratio is what makes the MoF system very interesing.
All of this is taken away with long linear paths like this.
On top of that, as I explained in my initial thread that I posted above, some of these linears paths are actually not going “deeper” but sideways or even closer to the staring point.
Sometimes this can lead to having 3-5 nodes linear paths suddenly not going deeper anymore and then it feels like “wasted time”, because Vessels have a lot higher chance of spawning on great depths.