Parametric sice of change in shape of rectangle to scale and to the anchor point

A current project of mine, I use many forms - in particular rectangle shapes with rounded corners. To maintain the proportions of the rounded corners when the size changes animation, I use the size property of the trace of the rectangle across the shape. It seems to work pretty well, except that I can't After Effects to use the anchor for this method - the rectangle shape is still scaling to and from the center of the shape.

Is this type of "resizing" no support for anchor points, or am I missing something here? How do you solve it in your projects?

Thanks in advance!

There is no integrated solution and I'm not sure what you would do differently during the construction of a path. The expressions are simple enough, so why not use them?

Mylenium

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