Merging Sequence Flows With Gateway

Does the merging of sequence flows have to be through a gateway?

In this BPMN course on Camunda Academy, she optimized this design:

To this one:

So why not just like this without a gateway? Is it a bad practice?

I think I have got my answer already, which is to avoid the fake-join problem.

Fake join would lead to undesired behavior and I can see this clearly in case of using parallel gateway where we would need both execution tokens to meet at some point before moving forward.

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