To be totally clear, it is still beneficial to use groups. Your mileage may vary.
A helpful exercise to see how auto-layout will be beneficial to you is to recreate an old design of yours using auto-layout as much as possible, instead of groups.
Figma has published a handy tool for learning how to use Auto Layout:
https://www.figma.com/community/file/...
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