Branching and Hiding Lessons

I'm creating courses for onboarding curriculum that would be used by staff in both our domestic and international markets. For some courses, the content will vary slightly based on location. Ideally we'd like to keep all of the content in the same course and use button stacks to create branching for learners to navigate to only the content that is relevant to their location. Is there a way to hide these lessons from the menu? Removing the menu entirely is not an option as we're going for consistency with the look and feel of the courses and every other course we've published has the menu. I have seen several threads similar to this one but most of them were from 7-8 years back so I'm hoping there's been a breakthrough with features or workarounds that I haven't found yet!