What is the correlation between "No Weight-Blend" layers and the "Alpha Blend" blend type?

Thanks @Scribbler
and thanks [USER=“3140864”]MostHost LA[/USER]
I think I finally understand.

As a follow up question on this theme, if I have a “layer blend” node which is blending between 4 “Weighted(normal)” biomes/materials , like desert, tundra, *prairie *and marsh, one of these must be setted to “alpha blend” instead of “height blend”.

The question is which one?
Meaning, does that layer loose the height blending capability when painting right? I would really like each of them to have this feature, so is there any workaround that is not too expensive? Like creating an extra simple base layer set to “No Weight-Blend” and “alpha blend” with not textures? Would something like this work?

Thanks!