Have you tried to flip the switch above a selected fixture in the plot view? This feature (switch) allows you to move objects/texts to a fake position for plot clarity. They do not get moved in other plot views or modes. After flipping the switch there is also an option in the navigator menu called "Clear Plot Adjustments" to return the object in its original position rather than dragging to a new position.

Yes, I've already moved a lot of the plot around for clarity. But the whole point of a plot view is also to work from for rigging, and spacing out fixtures there would be very unhelpful. As would moving a fixture off the bar/pipe.

It's great that we can move the "annotations" independently, but the slot frames stacking up like this can't be moved that way and really do make it unusable as soon as you've got fixtures with more than 1 or 2 items in them.

Looks like it's a feature request to make it possible to have plot adjustments for some of the other annotations not just limited to fixture number, patch, circuit etc.

Thank you for your feedback and your thorough explanation. Indeed this is a feature request that we noted for future implementation.