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I frequently use "substeps" or "subsubsteps" and sometimes even "subsubsubsteps" to indicate the level of nesting. Is it confusing? Not sure how to adequately replace it. Hmm.
Oh, I assumed it was just a typo. I see that there are occurences of the same thing in the HTML spec, so I'll resolve this as invalid.