Can't actually run a pre-existing action through a new action since the new action window has been redesigned

Can't actually run a pre-existing action through a new action since the new action window has been redesigned - it used to work perfectly. In our specific case we have a multi layered high pass action that we want to run through our batch of about 500 images, but we also want this action to go through after we have reframed and cropped the files. In the old versions we could simply record a new action and then run through the recording of the new action that other high pass action. 

In the new version you can actually create a new action and tell it to have another one run through it, although when comes the time to run the action, this other other that you want to “play” through this new one will not go through, you get a window that tells you the action cannot run within the action. It’s hard to explain clearly I guess it’s a very concrete and specific situation. 

It’s one of these things where these new action windows look “cooler” but they are deeply flawed in how they were redesigned. We have to spend considerable energy and time just to chill down from how significantly annoyed we are from this issue. How could one ever justify changing something that worked fine for something that doesn’t