With a little professional planning, a lot of
this could be avoided.

Some of the biggest goof-ups in kitchen planning have been perpetrated
by professionals. Double check their advice by building some
rudimentary cardboard mock-ups, making your own drawings and checking
for interferences, and by just sitting down and doing some mental
simulations once you have a good feel for the proposed design.

Many kitchen planning "pros" are high school dropouts.