What was keeping the branches "alive" before Loki?

what kept the branches alive? I am not really sure; branches dying seemed to occur at the beginning of that scene.

and shortly before that scene, there were too many branches for the Loom to handle.

@Ericboy405 The Loom would have been fine If it was any number of branches but "Infinity" as The Loom could have control it eventually but you cannot Control Infinity timelines at once unless you're a God of Stories like Loki is and even then it gonna be tough.

@IronWidowMaikuB Agreed.

What does everyone think about the multiple reports that Marvel is moving away from the Kang storyline?

In one recent report from Coming Soon, Johanna Robinson, co-writer of the new Marvel book, "MCU: The Reign of Marvel Studios", while recently speaking on The Ringer's House of R podcast, claimed that screenwriter Jeff Loveness was reportedly told that Marvel Studios was “likely moving away” from the Kang storyline, hence why he’s no longer writing ‘AVENGERS: The KANG DYNASTY’.

One could argue that Marvel will simply allow the ambiguous ending of the Loki finale to simply be the end of all we will ever hear about Kang. Loki dethroned HWR, and the TVA's new mission is to clean up after all the Kang variants. Thus, one possible outcome would be that there is no more story to tell there.

It’s awful since the Star Wars sequel trilogy did that with Palpatine without setup and it ended being awful, seriously it’s Jeff love as fault or just Rick and Morty’s fault for how the Mcu is now

about Star Wars; I have watched each movie. pretty much like each of them.

*heavy breathing* well back to topic I’m surprised this season was watchable maybe because of the amount of trash this year had or there were no reshoots for this which is umm wow ok

No don't change it we love Kang

Or more importantly they can’t afford to do a rise of Skywalker