Multiple users contacted us with bug reports/feature requests/questions, because they did not use the workflows correctly. Some even did not know, that they are changeable at all.
The page itself is largely completely outdated and not intuitive. Some I'll list here some of the main issues are: problems:
* The checkbox in the filter section is ignored by most of the users. As a result, they They then wonder why not they don't see all statuses are visible. statuses.
* Setting up To setup a complete whole workflow is very time-consuming, takes a lot of time, as you have to define it has to be defined separately for every role–type combination. each pair of role and type.
* The table becomes extremely long is really messy as it
* you need to be an OP expert to understand what it is supposed to do
* gets super long/wide very quick and wide very quickly, forcing users you have to scroll or zoom out just to reach all statuses.
statuses
* Opening two additional sections does not help to keep the page clean or and intuitive.
* Nobody (even I myself) understands at the first glance, that the additional workflows do not override the ones defined before but only extend it. Thus I can define workflows for authors, which cannot be saved as the default area says something else. Have a look at #33456