I think it would be useful to format the sketch text settings more like how "text boxes" are formatted in things like Adobe and Microsoft Products. Not only would this be more intuitive from a user's perspective as most people are familiar with how they work, but it would also make it easier to actively change the text if you need it to. For example, in the image below, the dashed border I would think to be a standrad "text box" like in the programs I mentioned above. However, when I change the size of the dashed box, its height controls the size of the letters, its angle tilts the text, but its width does nothing, as shown in the images below.
Nothing allows me to wrap the text around to a new line, unless I press enter at a specific location within the "Edit Text" window. With lots of text to deal with (I just repeated a bunch of "a"s as an example), finding the right spot to hit "enter" to form a new line can be tricky, and working with text in Fusion 360 would be a much more intuitive experience if the yellow dashed text box worked like a text box that people are used to dealing with (i.e. while Fusion is a new type of design tool, there is no use reinventing the wheel on this specific concept). Perhaps the width of the text box could set the marker for where text should wrap around to the next line, like in other products.
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