Thanks Aubri.
Unfortunately, it seems like this case is not covered by Map Constraints.
It appears that Maintain Center is the default behavior (which I'm actively trying to avoid), Maintain Extent just shrinks it down, and Maintain Scale acts the same as Maintain Center, based on my testing.
A simplified use case to use as an example is I have a rectangular map frame whose vertices I want to change.
1) Map frame whose vertices I want to edit. There is another map frame with the exact same extent used as reference for this exercise. | 2) I can edit the vertices just fine so long as the total frame size stays the same |
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3) If I change the total height or width, the entire thing moves. Casper is now in the approximate location of Lusk, and the Bighorn Mountains are covering the Bearlodge Mountains | 3.5) I've changed the map frame's height now, and apparently the state line actually halfway up the state. |
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I'd like to pick an extent, pin in place, then change the map frame around it without having all of its contents move around. The Map constraints I already discussed don't work in this case, but neither would the constraints for linked map frames for the same reasons. Bookmarks also don't work, since they function the same as Maintain Extent or zooming to an index layer. I can of course just readjust, but as I previously mentioned, that's time consuming and rather annoying. The whole "Maintain center when resizing" is frequently useful behaviour, but I'd love to be able to turn it off.