Challenge 2: Why Illustrator's Groups Don't Auto-Reposition Neighbors — Solution Walkthrough

The answer:

Per this chapter's own material, Illustrator and Inkscape have no
equivalent to Auto Layout at all — resizing a group in either tool
never automatically repositions or resizes sibling elements around it.
A Figma Auto Layout Frame is genuinely different: its children are
automatically stacked, spaced, and resized according to a set of
rules, recalculated continuously as content changes.

Why this isn't a missing feature in Illustrator/Inkscape:

Per this chapter's own material, this absence reflects what those
tools are actually built for — static illustration and print work,
where a shape's neighbors genuinely don't need to dynamically react to
it changing. A logo or a printed illustration isn't expected to have
its layout recalculated every time one element resizes.

Why Figma needed to build this instead:

UI design constantly deals with dynamically changing content —
different text lengths, varying numbers of list items, different
screen sizes — none of which a static illustration tool was ever built
to handle automatically. Auto Layout exists specifically to solve that
problem, which simply doesn't arise the same way in Illustrator or
Inkscape's own typical use cases.

WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER
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This exercise checks that the absence of auto-repositioning in
Illustrator/Inkscape is correctly understood as a reflection of what
those tools are built for, not a shortcoming, and that Auto Layout is
recognized as solving a genuinely different problem.