No way, this was an immediate great thing I noticed when I first started Ignition compared to other packages. Sometimes you have to sandwich things on top of each other with visibility (although I haven't in years), and in Ignition this is completely manageable. In other packages that keep everything visible, it's impossible to mange... I remember in another package having to move the stacked component I wanted to edit to the side so I could actually see it, edit it, then try to get it back to the same spot... worst experience.
The live designer also helps enormously with other parts of developing the GUI as well as it allows you to test while you're developing, rather than having to (compile,) launch the client, and test there.
Layers on the other hand, would be a huge improvement, along with the ability to lock components (looking at you, Perspective).
The Perspective coordinate container grouping experience is very average, so much so that I don't often group things in coord containers; it's just too much hassle. Copying and pasting components into embedded percent coord containers is just horrible since the sizes relate to the coord container you're pasting it into, which are likely wildly different to the one you copied from. I do tend to design using fixed mode though, but having multiple embedded coord containers is a horrible experience as I would want to set these to fixed too, and then you need to remember to set the emdebbed coords and the view coord back to percent once done