Both pools have a preferred pathing way to it, if you click on it you most likely will not walk the shortest/direct way to it. Even with the trees cut down you will walk not in a strait line.
Only from a short distance you will walk strait to it, without your hero trying to walk around it.
There is no need for this behavior and I bet I’m not the only one who got in bad situations because of it.
I made videos here to show how heroes don’t path in a straight line towards lotus pool:
https://www.reddit.com/r/DotA2/comments/143wgmt/movement\_and\_pathing\_issues\_in\_733c\_with\_lotus/?sort=new
I also highlighted many other movement issues in that thread that really should be addressed