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Hot take: auto layout is making designers lazy about spacing

I spent yesterday untangling a file where someone used auto layout on every single frame including buttons. It took me 20 minutes to find why a dropdown wasn't aligning because the auto layout was fighting itself. Anyone else think we rely on it too much instead of just setting manual padding?
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diana_bell74
Had a friend tell me they spent an hour trying to fix a button that kept jumping around. Turned off auto layout and it worked perfectly first try. Sometimes the old way just works better.
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veraramirez
Wait, isn't auto layout just Figma's way of making things even more complicated?
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