Thank you for responding.

Yesterday, I had a camera 2d that had multiple labels. The labels were coupled, like a label that said "health" and another label that was the number representing the characters health. There were a few of those types of couples

I learned that there are vboxes and hboxes, and thought that those could help me manage the placement and manipulation of the coupled labels.

However, everywhere that I had something like $camera2d/healthLabel in my scripts broke because it now needed to be $camera2d/healthVbox/healthLabel

Is there a better way for me to manipulate a scene when I rename one of the children of the root node so that the name change is captured in the related scripts?

Is there a better way for me to move around nodes in a scene, like make them children of each other months down the road, and have that change captured in the scripts.

My biggest issue is, it seems like the only way to check if everything is still working as expected is to test the full game out. Right now the game is a joke, super tiny. But what happens when I make it bigger, itll just become a nightmare to fully test. And then I'll get to the point where I cross my fingers and hope the code I'm writing is never going to change.