Consolidate all the multiple-instances of Shield-Armor-Weapons upgrades into 6 or 8 levels on each button, if you do this across the board (with extraction efficiency, cargo holds, broadcast power, etc, you can free up enough space to do lots of other things)...
Yeah, I might do that... but that does change the balance of the tree itself, in that you get all those upgrades on the first few tiers of the tree... or on the last few tiers, depending on where you put it.
I'm still very much at a pre-production/brainstorming/exploration stage at the moment, so we'll see...