It may well be possible to do an alternate return, skipping a frame, that is, itself, very reliably predicted correctly. But it still looks like: CALL

It may well be possible to do an alternate return, skipping a frame, that is, itself, very reliably predicted correctly. But it still looks like: CALL jump-without-RET and the calls and the rets don’t line up. This defeats the return prediction on the next return.