hairpins and dynamics marks

It *is* designed to work the way I described, and it works extremely well in the majority of cases. Normally, you wouldn't need a dynamic on the start note of a hairpin, because the current dyanmic is assumed to already be in effect and wouldn't need repeating. So it works quite well in these common cases. The case needing a dynamic change right at the start of a hairpin really shouldn't be that common

Even In those cases where for whatever reason you do want a change in dynamic - or feel it necessary to restate the current current dynamic - if you do it the way I suggested, it works perfectly. So the design works very well in the majority of cases. The main real world case where you would really need the crescendo to start on the same note as the dynamic is if that note is a long note and want to make it clear that the crescendo should start immediately, not with the next note. So it is true that in these casses and these cases only, you currently need to apply a manual adjustment. That doesn't mean the design isn't very good for the majority of cases, which work perfectly out of the box.

For these special cases where you need a dynamic and hairpin starting on the same note, automatic adjustment is not a bad idea, although really, why should MuseScore assumed you want to move the hairpin right rather than the dynamic left? And if I *do* want the dynamic ove left, now it's twice as much to fix. That's the problem with automatic adjustments - without controls over how that adjustment is performed, it ends up being counterproductive half the time.