Recently Figma has made changes to how child and parent elements automatically apply auto layout rules when you first add auto layout to them. It seems like Figma is trying to guess what I want my settings to be (fill vs. hug vs. fixed, that kind of thing). When this works it’s helpful, but in practice I find that it’s usually not applying the properties that I want it to apply. I’m having to spend so much time tweaking the AL settings after I press Shift + A and it has finally annoyed me enough that I felt like making a topic about it.
This is especially the case when I’m creating new component sets (I almost always use AL for these) and my components all get set to fill when I want them to remain fixed width, and the component set is set to a fixed width instead of hug. I have to go in and reset all the children to fixed with, and the parent frame to hug, every single time.
I gave it an adjustment phase but after a few weeks I have to say that this is still really bothering me and costing me a lot of productivity and tedium. Just curious if anyone else is feeling similarly.