Why is something that doesn't automatically neatly align considered "clunk"?
My counterargument against "if it doesn't neatly align, it's clunk" is that something has a much higher risk of becoming stale the more strict, predictable and neatly aligned it is by nature. Look at how stale the 2min burst meta became: everything was stuffed into "press a few buttons every 30s, some more every 60s and ALL THE BUTTONS every 120s". And I also partly blame this obsession with making everything auto-align for the incredibly stale and boring gameplay in FFXIV.
Something isn't automatically aligned with the Dragon Sight the DRG gave me? Away with it! Someone doesn't burst during my Divination? Align it! My potion either aligns with raid buffs or my personal? Ew! My dot refresh doesn't automatically align with an oGCD I have to press on cooldown? No, can't have that.
You map out the first 2min of a fight, you loop it until the boss dies.
At this point it's not just the devs restricting the gameplay anymore, it's the players as well.

And as for tracking dots: you can split the target bar into HP bar, cast bar and debuff bar and filter the latter to only show your own debuffs, scale it to whatever size is comfortable for you and put it where you want it to be without having to pin it to a massive boss HP bar. I've put mine where my buffs are right above my hotbars so I can track my buffs, debuffs and cooldowns all at once.
Tracking dots on a single target is fairly easy in this game, multi-target is a nightmare though.