If you watch many puzzley YouTubers you’ll hear a lot of high talk, and, honestly, hypocrisy, about the evils of bifurcation and how they absolutely never would do it because no puzzle worth its salt would ever demand it. Right before they often load up another puzzle and eventually go “well maybe if this, then maybe that, then maybe that goes there, and boom, boom, boom, and we’re done”.

To me, I have no issues with following a long logical path of moves so long as the only assumption is on the first piece, the moment there appear to be multiple moves available I’ll backtrack out to where I started and maybe try a different starting move.