Bruh
I basically did this first try and overlooked this one weird trick for far too long. Obvious in retrospect. Great puzzle and tech demo. A brutalizing number of 2 offs even when you have a good idea where the solution should be. Silver this time. I'm an absolute Hermes. The idea here is interesting. I think you could improve this puzzle by making the false paths much closer to the optimal stepcount though. There's a 2 off here that honestly feels faster. Damn. This one stumped me for awhile. Nice work Screw. The 18 made it much better.