And ... the more steps ... means crawling on your knees vs your belly under it ... ;) Of course elevated 7' high ... most people could walk under it! ;)
------------------------------
To the OP ... you have plenty of trees on your property for shade ... I'm not sure of the lay of the land ...
The challenge as I see it ... is if you have it up on basically 2' high posts ... how are you gonna fetch a chicken under there that don't want to be fetched? Or decides that is a better place to lay eggs ... either make it taller/higher, so you can get under it ... or skip the "using the coop...