Personally, I think the behaviour of the smart layout in Sketch feels easier to comprehend most of all for beginners. However, I support @adammenges that the fixed padding options for elements works really smoothly in Figma in comparison to the spacing options in Sketch, which sometimes do not maintain the same values when you interact with items, depending on how you set up all your smart layout options on groups.
But as far as I’ve seen there’s been a request to fix this with negative spacing and I also saw a request somewhere for wrapping content . So although the functionality looks different in Sketch and Figma, with those two requests, Sketch would be pretty close to Figma’s abilities.
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