Really interesting, thanks for sharing. I wasn't surprised to read at the end that you'd been inspired by Robot, as what I was reading reminded me very much of Robot.

I think it's an interesting experiment. I very much enjoy hearing from teams who are getting non-developers to take an active role in maintaining the team's Cucumber features, because I think we've so far done a poor job of making it a user-friendly tool for that type of user.

I'd like to know if you can imagine having expressed the 'meta step' mapping layer without any Ruby at all. What would it have looked like then?