Is anyone else using Auto Layout in their components? 

I find it slightly annoying that elements get forced to have a fixed width when making something a component.  

Auto layout has some really useful use cases for moving things in the right way with the right padding when changing instances of text for example.  Once this becomes a component the width is forced to fixed making it pretty pointless for being a component.  

I wondered if anyone else has come across this issue?

I've been playing around with a feature for adding multiple items as quickly and pain free as possible.  Would be interested if anyone has done something like this in the past and your thoughts on the attached solution.