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Thank you so much @ANStructs for the answer and for helping me connect the dots.

Hello @ANStructs, @UmarMakhzumi I came across the same situation as @MSKhanand your reply helped me to figure out what's going on in my design. Thanks. Most of the resources (books, online forums, videos) I came across on two way slab indicate that moment "will" be higher in the shorter direction than in the longer direction, hence, the reinforcement requirement in the shorter direction becomes higher than the longer direction with the shorter direction reinforcement also placed at a greater effective depth. But for the exact scenario that @MSKhan indicated above and which I also faced, what if I can't increase the stiffness of the beams in the long direction and I want to keep the beam cross section in the long direction as it is, say due to architectural constraints? Is it a hard and fast rule to "make sure" we have more moment in the short direction? Should I always adjust my beam-to-slab stiffness ratio to make sure that happens? Does it have economic implications? Is it an indicator of excessive deformation of the beams? Thanks a lot.