[Commentor] LC-390 on behalf of Nokia [Comment] 5.2.3 Balanced Structure It is not clear, whether this is indicating some mathematical balance. We believe a site should be \"balanced semantically or by importance.\" It makes no sense to always make the depth of all links similar. In fact, the first links should be directly to commonly-used information, while later links may lead to a deeper tree of less-often-used features. This is really important to explain well. [Commentor reply] no reply from commenter [Working Group decision] 
We have substantially reworded the Best Practice on balance to clarify that the balance was between the number of links per pages and the number of pages the user has to download to go to his or her intended result.