That is the price you pay. If you refuse to pay you are left to express a potentially complex state machine in terms of a flat state-transition table, so you have a huge python cases statement saying on event x do this and on event y do that. That obscures evident state-chart sequentiality, alternatives or loops (the stuff visible in the good old flow-charts) that otherwise could be mapped in their natural language constructs. But yes, is not honest flow. Is a tradeoff.