Patrick-
Please, do not take this personally. Do learn better programming practices. EVERY reason you gave screams for better code architecture not for the "more obfuscated code" you dream of.
My defense of the Stacked Sequence Structue as "necessary" has been challenged with great examples of alternate code methods on modern LabVIEW compilers for simple examples.
I welcome you or anyone to join the discussion with examples of code that cannot be rewritten otherwise and meet an "XYZ" design requirement. I really am tottering on the edge of supporting the removal of that structure after some detailed analisys.