Im an ex Yootheme user, and I have been impressed with the ease I have found moving over. But one things I cannot find is similar to your simple portfolio.
A masonry layout that I can use to show tagged items to articles.
I can go that using widgetkit gallery and using custom as the source. Then I can link the images to open articles whose links I specify.
The simple portfolio is almost there but it wants the pages made in the portfolio component. What I and I am sure others would love is a url filed so if the url was put in the description etc would not be needed but would instead open the link which could then be to some joomla content. It would really open the power of this component to be able to link the masonry grids to any joomla content and not just the content in the component.
Would you consider it or perhaps a masonry element in sp page builder so tagged images could be linked to joomla articles, click the image and the article opens