layout-engine Best formatting for Squarespace's new grid format

Squarespace's new grid layout seems good in context.. but I've done a couple of websites with it so far and get extremely frustrated by the best grid layout. Nothing seems to work where things can align correctly? It would be so much better if they removed the grid functionality and allowed free formatting/designing?

Does anyone else have the same issues and how did you fix?

Example: That is the shape of the box I want the text contained in.. but where I am hovering the text box - that would be centre of the box, but it isn't within that grid .. it's just stupid!