Flow (experiment)
Finally got around following Evan Abram's awesome tutorial on diverging paths and learnt the basics of the technique.
Initially struggled a lot with creating smooth easing but found that adding extra (slightly wavy) keyframes to the generated progress path helped a lot - mostly edited with the value graph.
The above result was massively inspired by Andrew Vucko's The Power of Like and Ordinary Folk's Small Steps. Final animation is a far cry from either of those, but kinda happy with it.