We need workflow steps not to be hindered by the previous step being uncompleted that the next step isn't triggered for those steps that have a date.
We use the step tasks as reminders on the specified date to run certain reports on that date. If the step before it isn't fully completed, it shouldn't prevent the next step being active on the date it's due. I know you can skip steps with outcomes and there are "ways around" certain things I've read in Retail's comments on similar requests... but that is not what I'm talking about and that doesn't address the problem.
To reiterate, we would like the option to have steps be viewable on the date they are due (not necessarily before) to be triggered active regardless if the step before was completed. So as you "go through time" the steps "turn on" when the due date becomes "today".

Hope this is understandable and possible. Many of our repeated tasks we are using workflows for are time sensitive and have to be completed on the target date or before, and uncompleted steps are hindering those time sensitive "reminder tasks". We don't always have the time to keep up with and "manage" the workflows when tasks aren't competed in a previous step, or don't need to be completed because they don't happen to be relevant for a particular case.