Full points for writing style 🙂
I hadn't used these controls before and after seeing your screenshots I had to try them – and now I need to use them! I haven't used them aligned like in your demo but rather as headings and the shift makes it hard to use for even that purpose as you have to leave a huge white space around the LabelFx to cater for the various jumps that the skins make it perform. The worst offenders are Opus and Blue Glass – these move the text by a lot more than a few pixels and create a real alignment problem. The horizontal and vertical shift are both uneccessary and should both be removed IMO. Still, the labels add a really nice effect to my programs so I'm going to use them selectively in a few places anyway and wait for the fix I'm sure will be forthcoming shortly before using them in a wider context. Or in the parlance of the OP – I'll date but wait for a little self-improvement before taking things to the next level ;p
Regards,
Hamilton