Forced linear navigation in TOC (Captivate 5)

So far there is a lot to love about Captivate, but one seemingly insignificant issue might prevent us from taking the plunge: the inability to force linear slide navigation with the Table of Contents (TOC).

Forget about why we need forced linear navigation (it's a client thing).

Placing NEXT and PREVIOUS buttons on each page satisfies the linear navigation concept, but that means we cannot use the TOC for navigation. The TOC allows only 2 navigational modes: random access to all slides in any order, or no navigation at all (just a display of slide names). The TOC is a wonderful template component for many reasons (shows program duration, shows information organization, allows review of previous information, etc.), so we really don’t want to exclude it.

I’ve scoured the blogs and found incredibly cumbersome workarounds, like using incremented variables and associated comparison scripts to allow navigation, but that makes so many tasks truly tedious and error-prone (like adding a single slide to the middle of the presentation).

Articulate Presenter and Adobe Presenter both have a single check box which enables this functionality for the entire project. One would think Captivate has it as well.

Am I missing something?