Comment by saltcured

For me, this is always used via ProxyJump rules in my ~/.ssh/config

It is also nice that it works recursively, so I can logically structure my rules so that the one for my regular targets say to use bastion1, then the rule for bastion1 says to go via bastion 2, etc.

I find this easier to reason about and maintain rather than juggling a bunch of these multi-step rules.