My auto-layout button snapped after 3 client revisions

I spent a whole afternoon building this neat button with auto-layout and variants, and then the client asked for a third text size option. Suddenly every instance shifted weirdly and the padding just vanished. I had to go back and rebuild it from scratch with separate components instead of nesting everything. Has anyone else had auto-layout turn into a knot after too many tweaks?

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sam_harris6810d ago

...and that's exactly why I stopped building my kitchen cabinet plans on graph paper back in the day. I had this whole modular system worked out, every drawer and hinge mapped to the grid, and then the homeowner wanted one more shelf added to the corner unit. Boom, the whole layout shifted sideways and I had to renumber every single piece. Ended up just drawing each cabinet separate and stacking them in the file, way less elegant but way easier to swap out when someone changes their mind. Sometimes the simple ugly way beats the clever nested way.