Only involve a lawyer if you have absolutely no idea about contracts.
I suspect this is the case here insofar as choosing such a genuine fool would typically be comorbid.
Currently, we are considering enlarging the bearing surface with a sheet metal welded to the current steps and additional glued threaded rods, see example photo.
It would have been sensible to show the condition from multiple perspectives of both the first and the second attempt(!) instead of just one picture of the second attempt and an example photo of a hoped-for suitable alternative solution from elsewhere. However, there is enough to suspect that this is a premiere for this "stair builder."
Is this how you wanted the steps? But no architect planned that. How is the railing supposed to be installed there?
I already suspect that the "load-bearing" concrete wall was not planned (and pre-equipped!), but that the OP comes from a cunning place (near Schilda), had the house "planned" by a general contractor’s lackey, and immediately excluded the staircase as "client-supplied" (possibly because the general contractor knows its limits and is aware it has no experience with this special request). This would then be a textbook example 1a (no, actually even AAA+) of utterly ignoring the 11ant Steinemantra.
"Load-bearing" wall, special mounting elements (there is surely something nicely expensive for that in the Schöck pharmacy alone), and the "actual" staircase including the railing (see above) form a system that only daredevils/hazard seekers try to separate. "Little sins are punished by dear God immediately"—the combination of an excellence-detail special request and cheapness is probably a small sin of the highest order. In this respect, I cannot suppress the honesty that—even though I still consider accepting the job by the bungler punishable—my sympathy in such a case is not only minimal but actually negative.