You can use it as 5 stomps which yes you scroll through with the right pedal to select the next one you want to turn on or off. But if its the same one to turn on and off then that remains selected until you scroll
It's not hard to do, not as fiddly as you think. you can always go down the patches route (very quick and easy on the computer) so if a song has say, 3 effects on it and one which comes on and off throughout just make a patch with all the fx, then copy and paste it onto the adjacent patch, delete the effect in question.
Then just switch from one patch to the other.
Just to be clear, you only cycle through the 5 effects you've chosen as your 'board' not all the available effects.
So if your overdrive is no 3, activate it /deactivate it with one pedal You only scroll through the to get to another effect.