I am kind of at a loss. If you disable expensive early game steel recipe and also do not opt to get a tiny start equipment, how do you start steel production when you need steel for blast and induction furnaces, and for casting machines? Am I missing something?

That mean you are using an other mod that have recipes for steal

My problem is that there is no steel recipe if I disable the one that is 30 iron plates -> 1 steel plate.

Angel changed the tier 1 buildings to require steel, making your mod nearly impossible.

0.1.7 Steal cost is re-evaluated for matching angel's recent change

As of 0.2.2 for Factorio 0.17 when the "Allow an expensive and inefficient early-game steel recipe" is disabled then there is no way to get steel to be able to build the Angel's Mk1 smelting buildings, thus stalling progress as all recipes to get steel are either 40 x Molten Steel -> 4 x Steel Plate and 1 x Steel Sheet Coil -> 4 x Steel Plate, both of which require Angels smelting (and the coil requiring green research as well), with no other method.

normally, it work fine. it should be an unexpected cross-mods mess-up.
Then I need your mods list please.

I am in this same rut. All that I am running that could possibly cause this, as you report it as another mods steel recipe messing with it, is Bob's, Angel's, and this. No other mod I am using touches steel. I'm not even sure if Bob's does tbh...

As of now, until this is solved, I am disabling this mod till I have enough steel for one mk1 smelting line then re-enabling it.