@shyanne#2 I would rather work down a real 1040, tunnel down (quick zoom) to back up forms or schedules like we always have.  If the final product is this chopped up half pages and numbered schedules that is fine, because that is not going away, at least for a while, then so be it..

I learned to do returns manually  , a fair amount of time ago, and even in PS, I approach the return most of the time in the order of the old 1040.  Seems like a bunch of hops and skips to get around now.. not intuitive, (no pun intended but pretty clever all the same)