Technology

I've been using this pattern in some large production projects, and it's been a real life saver for me. Like you said, once the code gets large, it's just too hard to keep track of everything cause it overflows what you can keep in your head effectively. And at that point you just start guessing when you make decisions which inevitably leads to weird bugs. The other huge benefit is it makes it far easier to deal with changing requirements. If you have a graph of steps you're doing, it's trivial to add, remove, or rearrange steps. You can visually inspect it, and guarantee that the new workflow is doing what you want it to.