I think you want something similar to my setup... I rarely position and focus windows with the mouse.. only for certain apps that don't resize well into my predefined regions. I believe it's somewhat similar to what Rectangle can do on OS/X, although I only stumbled upon that later.
Here's something I put together for the (not-hyperland) compositor LabWC: https://github.com/labwc/labwc/issues/1001 (and have done similar with X11/OpenBox previously) which might serve as explanation and inspiration. Your post inspired me to rebase and clean up the patch, so thanks.
If the lowest paid intern gets to use AI, then it will probably help them configure it properly.. the docs generally aren't bad (of the ones I've seen/used), but they're not newbie/intern level docs.
edit: That's a lot of downvotes for suggesting AI is useful at a primarily language/grammatical problem (ie. helping to crafting security/sandbox policy DSLs from terse docs and examples)? I detect some gut-reaction insecurities in these parts. ๐