The metadata step is already conditional (checks MediaInfo JS module existence & $wgUploadWizardConfig['wikibase']['enabled'] config var), but this is not enough for launch.
We need a separate variable that prevents the metadata step from being loaded, so that we can have this additional step only on beta (and not in production) for some time.
$wgUploadWizardConfig['wikibase']['enabled'] doesn't suffice because that would also turn captions off...