Is this kind of path complexity deliberate, or lazy? If so what's the benefit of designing like this?

I just noticed something intriguing on a logo designed by someone else and passed on to me.

Part of the logo features a leaf and, upon close inspection, i noticed that the complexity of the path on seemingly straight angled lines is unusually complex.

Here is the complex path

closer view

And here is the same path simplified on the other side of the leaf shape

Can anyone explain to me why you would choose to do this as opposed to the straight line in the third, simplified image? I guess a leaf wouldn't have perfectly edges, but that seems by-the-by when designing a logo like this.

Thoughts?

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