I handle them poorly.Yeah me too. I almost always "dip my toes" down one path, then turn around and try the other, then run back to the first path and decide it is the main path, and then run back to the side path. So dumb haha.
There's a game with 3 doorways, two have important treasures, the other immediately skips to the next part of the game. Meaning the treasures are completely missable.