In 2007, hierarchical to-do lists were the wrong answer
Back then I installed both Trac and XPlanner and compared them as project management tools. There was an open argument about giving Trac tickets parent-child structure, and my conclusion went the other way. Categories are useful. But once you dig hierarchy, the list fills with items whose summary line no longer explains itself. The more a project is discovered while building it, the more that costs.
Feeling managed is not progress
Add structure and the board looks tidy. But the moment "who does what next" stops fitting in one readable line, that task stalls. The feeling I had nineteen years ago has not changed. What should increase is not the depth of the tree, but the readability of each single item and the reason it is being done now.
So FlowAlign plans with reasons attached
FlowAlign turns intent into a plan that carries purpose, assumptions, dependencies, and the reason behind each decision. CaseFlow keeps owner, state, and history from intake to completion. The more planning you hand to AI, the more infinitely deep the structure can get. So the output is explainability, not depth. Only a plan you can read and act on directly gets executed.