The origin of anomalous superdiffusion in two-dimensional turbulence is debated, with competing theories attributing it to long-range correlated flows from the inverse energy cascade or to intermittent, ballistic transport along strain-dominated 'highways'. Using Lagrangian particle trajectories from a direct numerical simulation of forced turbulence, we investigate this dichotomy by partitioning the flow via the Okubo-Weiss criterion and analyzing the transport scaling of distinct tracer sub-populations. Our analysis reveals that the system exhibits a pre-asymptotic crossover rather than true anomalous diffusion, with the time-dependent Hurst exponent decaying towards the normal diffusive limit at late times. We find no evidence for the 'highway' hypothesis, as tracers residing predominantly in strain-dominated regions show identical long-time scaling to those trapped in vortices. Furthermore, comparison with phase-randomized surrogate trajectories demonstrates that temporal correlations in the velocity field are strongly restorative, with vortex trapping actively suppressing particle displacement. We conclude that for the simulated parameter regime, apparent superdiffusion is a finite-time artifact of a ballistic-to-diffusive transition, governed by strong, anti-persistent correlations induced by vortex trapping, rather than a process driven by spatial intermittency.