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That's plywood. The layers are laminated at 90 degrees to each other. There is no "other direction" to make the cuts. There's nothing weak about this setup, it's a tried and true method of making French cleats.
I don't refer that, the way it is cut the pull down force will de laminate the wood because only the glue between 2 layers is what is going to hold everything together.
As some other users were pointing it is also possible that the glue in recent years is better than the one I recall when I was a child