I have the same absurd problem, I use this (normally) to place my logo. So one (not perfect, because it's harder than just to place a sticker, but still..) solution is to go to your picture (in my case logo) that you want to embed, click the 3 dots, copy to chipboard. Than go the picture you want to place it on, click the 3 dots or hold on it > paste from clipboard. And then it works exactly as the stickers.
Ufortunately it doesn't let me save it as a sticker even from this position, so I can't find it under recent stickers, so I have to do the whole thing every time again and again (if the image got replaced in the clipboard meanwhile).
And it doesn't work on videos, there I use cap cut...
Very very stupid thing to change Samsung... one from many many others. Take note!
Thank you SO much!! This is the answer! I was looking for this since they made the change to AI but they didn't put it in the Labs. Evidently they added it later in one of the updates.
Manual basically turns sticker creation back to the old version where you can free-form select or snap to shape. It's the same exact thing and back to what we were used to.
Samsung needs to make this a regular option in Settings instead of hiding it in the Labs as a beta.
