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Why, conceptually, does the torus normalizer in $G_2$ split?

Background: Let $G$ be a complex reductive group, $T$ a maximal torus, $N$ the normalizer of $T$ in $G$, and $W = N/T$ the Weyl group. All in all, we have a group extension $$ 1 \to T \to N \to W \to ...
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subgroups with the same number of roots that the group.

When thinking in terms of Dynkin diagrams, I am naively used to see that the diagram for a subgroup can be extracted from the diagram of the group by removing some roots. Now, I noticed that for SO(10)...