It's not really time-saving. It's aesthetics, how much you care about the beauty and professionalism of your diagrams. All the layout engines will get the corre

It's not really time-saving. It's aesthetics, how much you care about the beauty and professionalism of your diagrams. All the layout engines will get the correctness right -- all the connections point to where you want em, etc. But they'll often do so in different ways. Eg: https://text-to-diagram.com/?example=chess&b=d2&layout_b=dagre https://text-to-diagram.com/?example=chess&b=d2&layout_b=dag...