I spend a lot of time figuring out how to "fake" this using what's available, and there's always complications.

For reals, can we get an option in the If/Else or create a Count/Loop function, please?

For example, IF this is the first time through the loop, send this message and do these things. If it's the second time through, do these other things. And so on. Then when the COUNT is reached, exit the loop.

Providing this functionality is quite cumbersome because of all the games I have to play to trick the system into thinking it's own way.

Even the ability to recursively update a field or would help, such as setting the event date to current event + 1 day so that I don't have to have one custom value for each date of the masterclass/summit/challenge when the client wants to have it again OR do some ginormously long linear workflow that's impossible to maintain because you can't figure out which ACTION box holds whatever it is you need to change.

Or the recursive field can be a number. For example, the down payment is $5,000. So loop until total of payments received meets or exceeds $5,000, THEN move to the next step. At the moment we use a custom field that gets manually updated by Sales or Accounting whenever a payment is made.