Why does all cold/offline storage setup require three steps? I was reading about cold/offline storage and from what I have seen all clients seem to work the same. Requiring you to create the transaction on the online computer, getting it to the offline computer and signing it, then getting it back to the online computer to broadcast, but I don't get why? It seems to me you should be able to make this in two steps and it would also make it more secure as data only ever have to flow in one direction. You create and sign the transaction on the offline computer then you get it to the online computer to broadcast. So why is it not implemented like this in clients?
Building the unsigned transaction requires the input data(transaction IDs, vout, values), and is also good practice to check the network fee climate prior to setting a fee in the transaction you are building.
Technically yes you could do it in two steps but it would be considered for advanced users only and still prone to typos or other errors during the input data entry.
Related repository of mine that lets you skip step 1 and do it in 2 steps if you choose. (NOT A RECOMMENDATION, EXAMPLE ONLY TEST SOFTWARE USE AT OWN RISK) https://coinables.github.io/coldsigner/