Clarification Needed on Expense Approval Setup Behavior to skip Participants

Hi All,
I hope you're doing well.

I have two inquiries regarding our current Expense Approval configuration, outlined below:

Approval Setup Structure:

• First Participant (Sequential Type):
  Rule Name1
  Rule Name2
  Rule Name3
  Rule Name4
  Rule Name5
  Rule Name6
  Rule Name7
  Rule Name8
• Second Participant (Parallel Type):
  Rule Name1 (part2)
  Rule Name2 (part2)
• Third Participant (Sequential Type):
  Rule Name1 (part3)
  Rule Name2 (part3)

Questions:

1. Why is the system enforcing Rule Name3 and Rule Name4 during the Second and Third Participants, even though these rules are not defined in those stages? This is currently causing system errors.
2. How can we configure the system to