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Yes, I thought this was clear from my statement.
“Rotation would not make a difference”
It would. The offsets generated by the hash would repeat every 32 shifts, but the absolute addresses given in the collision cases are a random construction based on the history of the tree at that point, so despite the offsets’ repeating, the tree’s invariants along the lookup are likely to be preserved.