Defense on passive tree

Im a casual so im probably making a tonne of “mistakes”. Particularly, I heard Jonathan say in an interview that picking defensive nodes on the tree early in the campaign is a noob trap.

That makes me think: why don’t you move those nodes further out from the centre?

I understand currently you let users think “do I want offenses or defenses”, but if one is straight up worse then that’s only a consideration the first time. Instead, if you move a wider variety of offensive nodes to the middle, now people actually need to choose left or right depending on what kind of character they want to make