But those steps are blinking, right? Are you saying that because they stay mainly on with a brief flicker off that this is hard to see? You do have to wait the whole half second to see the flash. Its the same when pressing a step, if you hold it long enough you can read the plocked parameters on the screen, if you don’t hold it long enough you accidently remove the step.
This box was designed in early 2000’s when things were a lot slower pace than they are now 
B