No need to be intimidated if you run it after the compressor tank. I felt the same way about interrupting the charging tube from the compressor to the tank. You will find lots of discussion of the pros and cons of putting the cooling before or after the tank. You are not going to find complete consensus on either side so I don’t want to start up that debate: just explaining there are two ways to do it (maybe more).
Here is one such conversation but there are at least a half a dozen threads that discuss the placement in depth: