Bloody Stupid Johnson is alive, well, and a software engineer
More things I could not make up if I tried.
There may well be legitimate reasons to limit the number of (visible) steps permitted in a workflow. Usability, comprehensibility, all that jazz.
“Because it breaks our default visual design” is not one of them.
Days I’d chuck it all for a Fedora install, I tell you what. Even if I did have to code up the interface myself.