Reduce the gap, and connect the couples
When adding people to a new Family Group Tree, the children of a couple often didn't fit on the screen in the new Sibling View. I'd much prefer if the gap between unmarried children were the same size as the gap between married children. It is great that the gap between a married child and their spouse is tiny, and that the gap between them and other children is "medium" sized. But the huge gap between an unmarried child and their next sibling makes the chart look like there are "holes" in it, and requires extra scrolling when they don't all fit on the screen. [BTW, although I first noticed this while selecting people to include in a Family Group Tree, it of course applies to the new Sibling view in general.]
In the screenshot below, you can see an unnecessarily large gap between the unmarried children and the other children:
I Photoshopped this to illustrate what I mean. I think it sufficiently separates the children from each other, but doesn't leave big empty holes in the diagram, and fits more on the screen so you don't have to scroll as much.
I also added the same line below married couples when not showing children as when we are showing children. I think that makes it more explicit who the married couples are, and might be helpful if we do decide to reduce the gap between children.
(I ended up doing this same kind of algorithm in my own GedcomX relationship graph viewer, and for the same reason--I needed married couples to have a bit of separation from their siblings, so you could visually see the list of kids more easily; but I didn't need a whole empty person's worth of space between them.)
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This should be fixed and easier to view with the latest update.
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