A network drawing is required here to properly assess your ask, but with mesh you cannot have a path where you end up looping the network. It's hard to follow the descirption due to the way the text is posted in, but that is what it sounds like is happening.
Additionally, you control which points talk to which portals based on the mesh cluster config they are assigned to.
Finally if you are bringing back multiple APs over mesh links, you have to make sure you are bridging, not tunneling, the mesh interfaces. Otherwise the MTU sizes shrink due to the nested GRE tunnels until the MTU no longer works.