Yeah, for a 6 kyu kata I was expecting something slightly more involved

Relax... note that I was disagreeing that anyone should be fired for writing code in this style.

If it's causing that much offense, I'm deleting my comment.

Comment deleted because it might have upset someone

TLDR: Agreed with Smudge that no one should be fired just because they code in this way, but expressed agreement with the sentiment that I don't find it great for readability. YMMV. It was just my opinion.

Then I truly do not understand the question.

If circumference (a loop around the trunk of the tree), S=3, each loop climbs the tree h=4 and height of tree H=16, then my understanding is that it will take 4 loops to reach the top because 4x4=16. So total travelled is 4x3=12 but yet expected output is 20.

First question... because I think I was not fully understanding the description...

Will I need to calculate that "constant angle to the ground"?

My solution fails the last of the three sample tests. If I ignore that and click Attempt, it passes all the final tests just fine. My solution does what was asked. My result array is correct. Seems the only reason it fails the third sample test is that the order of elements in my result array doesn't exactly match the order of elements in result array of the test.

See for yourself.

Expected: ["aabb", "bbaa", "abab", "baba", "baab"], instead got: ["abab", "aabb", "baba", "baab", "bbaa"]

My solution is at https://www.codewars.com/kata/reviews/523b40a5ad90113c2b00000f/groups/5ba2843ea27840cf640025f6