I get why it's needed because the defense needs to know who's an eligible receiver and who's not, but I agree - some of this is silly. Make some kind of rule change to the effect of "anyone lined up within 2 guys of the center is ineligible to be a receiver, anyone else on the line is eligible" and let guys line up from there however.
Of course, I want "half the distance to the goal" penalties to instead be tacked on the other side of the sticks so some 10-yard penalty with the ball originally at the 2 doesn't become 1st-and-11 from the 1, it's now 1st-and-20 from the 2. [Among a handful of other rule changes that would clean up things I think are dumb.]