Haha, I think it is more of a band-aid than anything applied for 1.4, but even this does come with its flaws.
But to be fair, they have been open and upfront about it and acknowledged it. They are releasing two new elements relating to the container element, which ‘should’ solve it once and for all and, at the same time, will be a lot easier to understand and also give us a lot more flexibility. 