diff --git a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/ControlPointPart.cs b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/ControlPointPart.cs
index 2dab3b0e59..b72ff18434 100644
--- a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/ControlPointPart.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/ControlPointPart.cs
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Screens.Edit.Components.Timelines.Summary.Parts
                             // as an optimisation, don't add a visualisation if there are already groups with the same types in close proximity.
                             // for newly added control points (ie. lazer editor first where group is added empty) we always skip for simplicity.
                             // that is fine, because cases where this is causing a performance issue are mostly where external tools were used to create an insane number of points.
-                            if (Children.Any(g => Math.Abs(g.Group.Time - group.Time) < 1000 && g.IsRedundant(group)))
+                            if (Children.Any(g => Math.Abs(g.Group.Time - group.Time) < 1000 && g.IsVisuallyRedundant(group)))
                                 continue;
 
                             Add(new GroupVisualisation(group));
diff --git a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/ControlPointVisualisation.cs b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/ControlPointVisualisation.cs
index 96fce1dac5..aaa3838be5 100644
--- a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/ControlPointVisualisation.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/ControlPointVisualisation.cs
@@ -27,6 +27,6 @@ namespace osu.Game.Screens.Edit.Components.Timelines.Summary.Parts
             Colour = Point.GetRepresentingColour(colours);
         }
 
-        public bool IsRedundant(ControlPoint other) => other.GetType() == Point.GetType();
+        public bool IsVisuallyRedundant(ControlPoint other) => other.GetType() == Point.GetType();
     }
 }
diff --git a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/EffectPointVisualisation.cs b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/EffectPointVisualisation.cs
index c08ab3728f..b4f048f29b 100644
--- a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/EffectPointVisualisation.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/EffectPointVisualisation.cs
@@ -70,6 +70,6 @@ namespace osu.Game.Screens.Edit.Components.Timelines.Summary.Parts
         }
 
         // kiai sections display duration, so are required to be visualised.
-        public bool IsRedundant(ControlPoint other) => (other as EffectControlPoint)?.KiaiMode == effect.KiaiMode;
+        public bool IsVisuallyRedundant(ControlPoint other) => (other as EffectControlPoint)?.KiaiMode == effect.KiaiMode;
     }
 }
diff --git a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/GroupVisualisation.cs b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/GroupVisualisation.cs
index b55df66a02..fc39f83e6a 100644
--- a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/GroupVisualisation.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/GroupVisualisation.cs
@@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ namespace osu.Game.Screens.Edit.Components.Timelines.Summary.Parts
         /// <summary>
         /// For display purposes, check whether the proposed group is made redundant by this visualisation group.
         /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="other"></param>
-        /// <returns></returns>
-        public bool IsRedundant(ControlPointGroup other) =>
-            other.ControlPoints.Any(c => InternalChildren.OfType<IControlPointVisualisationRedundant>().Any(c2 => c2.IsRedundant(c)));
+        public bool IsVisuallyRedundant(ControlPointGroup other) =>
+            other.ControlPoints.Any(c => InternalChildren.OfType<IControlPointVisualisationRedundant>().Any(c2 => c2.IsVisuallyRedundant(c)));
     }
 }
diff --git a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/IControlPointVisualisationRedundant.cs b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/IControlPointVisualisationRedundant.cs
index e4d47e4cdc..fc4facdd47 100644
--- a/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/IControlPointVisualisationRedundant.cs
+++ b/osu.Game/Screens/Edit/Components/Timelines/Summary/Parts/IControlPointVisualisationRedundant.cs
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ namespace osu.Game.Screens.Edit.Components.Timelines.Summary.Parts
 {
     public interface IControlPointVisualisationRedundant
     {
-        bool IsRedundant(ControlPoint other);
+        /// <summary>
+        /// For display purposes, check whether the proposed point is made redundant by this visualisation.
+        /// </summary>
+        bool IsVisuallyRedundant(ControlPoint other);
     }
 }