The post does highlight that in the introduction:

> It doesn't do DAGs as well. I often find myself preferring Dagre or ELK when I want a long flowing graph.

I thought "how bad could it be" and I was quite surprised :)

That's spectacularly obfuscated in comparison to the rest.

TALA is terrible at respecting the "direction: <up, down, left, right>" directive. It should choose an aspect ratio based on the direction, but instead it is trying to make the diagram as square as possible.