Mike,
Take a look at the Discord channel if you haven't already. There is a conversation going on there regarding Tech Debt to these changes.
For example:
It seems that QuickBase customers are going to continuously incur the Tech Debt of updates to the system.
I don't see a paradigm shift in this update that would cause it to not be automatic. You still have columns. So, QuickBase could and should have scaled it appropriately based upon the column width of the existing Dashboards. The paradigm shift that I was expecting, especially given the fact that QuickBase expects us to upgrade our current dashboards, was doing away with columns all together and allowing the builder to size the widgets and place them in free form. In either case, QuickBase could have adjusted the size of the display by calculating the portion of the screen that widget resides in.