How would you go about aligning several elements by their top-left corner to the center of your workspace?

Thank you for your reply and for confirming that Illustrator’s alignment functions are the bare minimum and need to be developed better. That’s why I posted this question. I want to find out how other people deal with complex alignment strategies to handle specific issues using Illustrator’s current minimal set of alignment methods.

I provided two examples and would love to know some other ways that people regularly compensate for the minimal tools Adobe provides.

For example, when you want to line some items up with the left edge of a box, for example, and some align with the right edge of the box, it can be helpful to left-align elements, then group them before right-aligning elements to the group. Then ungrouping. This hack works, but it is not perfect. 

I would like to compile a list of ways that people do special alignment not easily accomplished by Illustrator’s existing tools. I’ve been developing an alignment paradigm that would make these three types of alignment above really simple. As in one or two clicks.

When I compile some examples, I can submit a UserVoice request, but I am more likely going to pitch the entire system to someone directly before I approach Astute or another plugin developer. I will gladly submit a UserVoice, but this is a major feature, not just a simple request.

If anyone is frustrated by the minimal alignment functions in Illustrator, I would love to hear their issues with alignment that take a lot of work to solve with the existing tools..