Yeah… you’re right. They wouldn’t. I am just throwing out ideas. You don’t need to make the change at all if people wouldn’t like it.
I felt like a stage was missing, so I thought an entirely new stage would be good, but realized it would be too much work. A fake stage, as you said, wouldn’t work either. Maybe a checkpoint system? Dunno how you would implement it, but it would be perfect for squeezing in more requirements (not the stage 4 “checkpoint”).