How to skip empty steps

Hello, I have been trying to use multistep for a project, but am also using conditional fields. I have a relatively large data set that only gets asked if the user is new. Hiding these fieldgroups is no problem, but it results in many empty multistep steps to skip or to force the user to click through.

I could set a conditional markup field with a link that skips the steps... seems a bit hackish:
The skipped data sets are still in the index
The skipped data sets are still used in the progress bar
The next button still increments to the next step, even if that step is empty.

If this is impossible with current code, please re-categorize as a feature request.

thanks, tom