<span class="link_user">@brolex</span>, I don't find it critical depending on my enclosure temps. If I can maintain a decent temp in my enclosure I never had any problems with temp of the nutes.
<span class="link_user">@brolex</span>, it looks like he is following Nebula's Manifold by Nebula Haze: https://www.growweedeasy.com/manifold
It is to give the 1st and 3rd nodes space to grow without bunching up too much with the other nodes.