In reply to Justin Tadlock.

Ah ha, yes. This makes perfect sense and is actively being iterated on right now. It's being tracked at a high level here:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/29506

You can see more details around dimension control across blocks in this issue too:

https://github.com/WordPress/gutenberg/issues/28356

As for the Columns block missing alignment options, this is likely due to confusion around the overall Columns block vs the nested Column block. Here's a quick video where you'll see the Columns block has the option for full width but the Column block doesn't: https://cloudup.com/cYOe-eSb_iK I ran into this quite a few times and struggled to find it to be intuitive. Expect this to be something I touch on in the recap post for this call for testing :)

While I'm sharing context in the form of issues, I want to make it clear that I agree with you and am excited to see the team already working to improve this. Thanks for following up!