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How can I manually adjust the position of a vertex with a label by dragging within GraphPlot?

I am using Mathematica 12.0. Dragging works fine with vertex-unlabeled graphs, e.g.

GraphPlot[{"1" -> "2", "1" -> "3", "2" -> "3"}]

however, when I add vertex labels

GraphPlot[{"1" -> "2", "1" -> "3", "2" -> "3"}, VertexLabels -> Automatic]

I can only move the circle representing the vertex, without moving the vertex itself. When I try to move the actual point, it just disconnects one of the incident edges and moves that edge around.

The same question was asked here, however I can't get the offered solution to work in 12.0 either (and it uses the outdated VertexRenderingFunction).

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In versions 12.0+, you can access the legacy GraphPlot functionality using 

GraphComputation`GraphPlotLegacy[{"1" -> "2", "1" -> "3", "2" -> "3"},
   VertexLabeling -> True]
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  • $\begingroup$ Hi @kglr, how did you find this? $\endgroup$
    – Victor K.
    Commented Apr 17, 2020 at 12:51
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    $\begingroup$ Victor, with major v12 changes in GraphPlot I thought old GraphPlot should be accessible somehow for backward compatibility... and I tried Names["*`*raphPlot*"] $\endgroup$
    – kglr
    Commented Apr 17, 2020 at 13:07
  • $\begingroup$ Thanks, that’s pretty smart. $\endgroup$
    – Victor K.
    Commented Apr 17, 2020 at 17:24
  • $\begingroup$ Thank you, that worked perfectly. Any thoughts on why in 12.0+ dragging labelled vertices works like it does? Is it a bug or a feature? $\endgroup$
    – Randy Marsh
    Commented Apr 26, 2020 at 18:26

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