Image scaling issue within frame bounding boxes

Hey everyone

There has recently been a significant change to the behaviour of image frames in Adobe Express, which is having a massive impact on our entire team’s workflows and making our custom templates pretty much unusable.
The problem is this: when an image is inserted into a shaped frame (e.g. a diamond), the image can no longer be scaled down within the frame to a size smaller than the outer (invisible) rectangular bounding box of the shape. The programme now aggressively forces the image to fill these invisible corners – even though these areas will be cropped or masked out by the diamond shape in the final design anyway.

This new ‘fill logic’ is setting our team back quite a bit. Essentially, we either need the old behaviour restored or, at the very least, a toggle in the frame settings to disable this forced filling of the bounding box. Is there a reason why this feature has been changed?
 

Thanks in advance!