Well, yeah... But from RUNE to HIVE it takes about a minute and pretty low fees. Pretty easy to use too, in my opinion, if you don't run into issues as stayoutoftherz did for not having ETH on Arbitrum for fees.

The number of steps is not important for the end user, if they don't have to do almost anything. What is important is the ease of use and the fees and slippage. And to not have any issues.