It might be helpful, but in all cases the owner should be able to view the content after hitting submit, instead of being directed to the page not found'

Also, it can follow the same logic in profile approval, when the content is inactive on creation or editing. In other words, disable auto-apprival on creation and or editing.

I feel that would make more sense for your use case if it is possible to change logic without digging into the code too much and breaking other aspects