Re: Does anyone else do this?

> Again, the advantage seemed illusory.

I don't see any Clear Advantage either way.  I do think 
that those without training and / or without pre-Wildfire 
experience (me on both counts) will be biased toward using 
Clip Suppress, for good or bad, until they learn to get over 
the panic attack (a conditioned reaction if you come up from 
the low end) associate with a feature failure and get familiar 
with Resolve Mode Menu Manager.  For practical purposes it 
doesn't (?, therefore I ask) make a hill of beans difference 
which way you go with the exception of the Grouped feature that 
fails; you gotta go Menu Manager that way either to resolve the 
issue or Ungroup Failed if you opted to Suppress.

> While you can drag/add a feature to a group, 
> you can't remove features. 

Of course you can, albeit with some minor caveats.  That may have
been new to WF2.

> advantage of groups is that you can pattern them.

And Unpattern them.  Comes in handy sometimes.