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O' Checkbox, Where Art Thou?!

Xcode's auto constraints are chapping my hide this morning.

There's no arguing I should've learned how to deal with constraints more thoroughly earlier on, but when I started working with Xcode it was pretty reliable about leaving interface elements where I placed them in the storyboard views at run time. Since at least Xcode 10, though, I've had to take a lot more time locking elements down with constraints manually lest they go wandering all across the screen, particularly on machines running older versions of macOS.

The nature of my programs means there are generally a lot of checkboxes, labels, and text fields in a given view, and while I'm sure there are better ways to handle visual design than the one's I'm using, Xcode's current methods of automatically locking down elements in relation to one another is causing me all kinds of grief.