The idiom "garden path" typically refers to a misleading path, as in "He led me down the garden path" (to take advantage). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence.

Yes, I know. This is why the term “garden path” does not fit in that sentence.

I was yes-anding you, not no-butting.

I see. You could have made that more clear by prepending something like ”For those who don’t know,” to the start of your comments.

shrug I thought it was pretty clear from the context that I was expanding upon your point, but I'm not interested in starting flame wars about this.

Well, I misinterpreted your comment. Much like you seem to misinterpret my comments as starting a flame war. Oh well.