It's my first house and I was hesitant to drill holes in it, but things came out okay.
Not only is the faceplate level, but it's also pretty much level with the existing electric outlet faceplate!
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I'm probably on some spectrum because literally every outlet in my house has the screws aligned. It helps that we painted before we moved in so all the covers had to come down in preparation.
I'm slowly realizing that this isn't a rental and it's okay to do permanent things like drilling holes and replacing bathroom vents.
It looks nice when they're aligned though.
I would have gone with internal screwing and a caulked round faceplate though to save me the trouble of alignment. Aligning stresses me out
I was going to comment that what my first house taught me that all my projects had to be up to code ...eventually... in order to sell the place. However anyone who's aligning their faceplate screws is probably dull enough to do it right the first time.
Also yay for hardwire Ethernet