Mike, I'm afraid so. You want to assure that both the main line and the diverging route have power. If you don't do the drops from each switch, the route the points are set against will be electrically dead. That was good for DC, since you could isolate a train on a siding or industrial spur and either leave it dead or provide power by the same kind of wire drops but then back to a toggle switch, which is way more complicated. All you want to do here is provide power to all routes so you trains will run regardless of the point position. It's just one wire to the main and one to the diverging route but you will have to do this at every switch.
