I often see students from lesson 5 still skating by on particularly strong observational skills, with mediocre constructional ones. You could reasonably jump from lesson 5 to figure drawing. Now, admittedly, lessons 6/7 probably aren't ENTIRELY necessary. Going in with a solid grasp of construction will give you much more mental bandwidth to contend with the other two. Learning to draw the human figure involves so many things - basic construction, gesture, anatomy, etc. If you skip ahead to drawing human beings, regardless of who you look to for those lessons, it will be considerably more difficult. That aside, the real answer to your question is that a strong understanding of form, line, volume, construction and the other concepts lessons 1-7 explore is necessary to successfully start exploring the human figure. I may look into exploring my ability to teach things like design and other such things in the future, but for now, this is ultimately what drawabox will be limited to. That's what I know how to teach, it's ultimately what I'm good at. Drawabox is, and for the time being will be, largely about understanding the fundamentals of form, line, volume, and so on, and grasping their application by exploring various subject matter. There are plenty of great resources out there for this specific topic (Proko being a big one, which you mentioned yourself).
Now I've come to realize that I really shouldn't be teaching it. Then I realized they weren't very good, and started rewriting them. I added figure drawing lessons largely to 'complete' the idea of an end-to-end drawing course. It's just not something I'm comfortable teaching, and I've started to come to terms with that. Firstly, I wouldn't recommend my own figure drawing lessons.
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