I realized after my last commit that my change made a following line of code a bit redundant.
(alternatively my last change was redunadnt to the existing code.)
I took this oppertunity to make some minor cleanups and logging changes to the node changes which I hope will make tests a bit more clear.
(cherry picked from commit a374f74f7c)
Co-authored-by: Sam Kleinman <garen@tychoish.com>