Rules for hiding visuals

The reason why I’m hiding visuals is actually not because they overlap with other visuals. It’s because in order to show relevant values based on a filter which is not in a control, I have to put the filter on the sheet. In my use case users don’t need to see the filter on the sheet, so I need to hide it.

Regarding your question, I think it would make sense to re-arrange the visuals to take up the available space.