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I wonder how much that is to do with the fact that software is expected to run on a much wider range of screen sizes these days? Doing a drag-and-drop sort of thing when you have to support phones up to big desktop displays tends to result in the container widgets you describe.

On the web side I bet the right person could do something quite intuitive with CSS Grid though. You could drag out where you wanted various content blocks to appear at different screen sizes and generate a `grid-template-areas` [0] property to match it.

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/grid-templa...