Hi George,
As Austin mentioned one trick with that is things like Form Rules and Formulas don't start to assess changes to a field until a user clicks out of them. One trick I have seen a user put in place is they made sure a field that needed to be included appeared below it so the user would click away. They also went one step further and included a formula that displayed on that form itself to let a user know what required things were missing on a record and gave instructions that updated as the user went through the steps that included telling them to click into a specific field to get their form rules to update if they were cascading like you mentioned.
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Evan Martinez
Community Marketing Manager
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