I don't like levels with long distances serving no real purposes. It's personal preference of course.
Fact is, without the comment from RMKelly telling that it's straight forward, wouldn't have started it. And in deed, it's straight: on first try! LOL
Hmmm... For me this level was one of those where I'm 2 off for a while, testing different variations of same route and eventually, one works. Now what I did different allowing the cut? Dunno... It's very frustrating.