hello, not possible to copy workflow states?

Pretty sure this can't be done outside of an xml based SDF tool and I wouldn't touch that with a ten foot pole for this unless I had to

Yup I've done this with SDF before and it was not fun

Just too easy to make a mistake or typo and have it derail everything

Exactly. Also if you change any scriptids SDF won't delete/rename the old component so you end up with two