Thank you for your feedback on ways to improve our product. While this is something we understand would be useful, it's not on the short-term roadmap. Please continue to show your support for this idea.
The network chart is open source, located here (https://github.com/qlik-oss/network-vis-chart) if you want to explore modifications. The chart is based on vis.js which may have more options for the layout and the label placement.
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