How do you resize the Picture Gallery Widget? (below 279 pt)

The Picture Gallery widget works very nicely on a book, but it's way too big for my book design. I want a smaller image in the corner of the book. Something you tap on to open the picture gallery.
I can get rid of the title, the caption and the background and shrink the widget a bit, but then you go to the "metrics" section in the Inspector, and the widget will not go below a certain width or height (a potential disaster for the overall design of your book).
Bookry's widgets will not cut it either. What is the option then? Do I need to hand-code my own picture gallery widget? Good Lord..

The arrows don't show up on the iPad, they are only to aid navigation within iBA. You can use boxes in the background to frame your galleries (as the background is off). I believe it's also possible to change the colour of the dots beneath the gallery too, although I forget how to do that right now.
About Apple's rigid UX – I agree that it can be frustrating. Apple intended iBA to be used by everyone, and the sort of design options and customisability we might want may confuse the less experienced user. Apple also wanted the UI for every book to be the same – from the point of view of the new user, once you've used one iBA ebook (or iBook, I'm not sure what Apple want us to call it), you can use them all. Otherwise end users would to get used to a slightly different UI on each book, which kind of works against the idea that ideally UI should be intuitive enough to be invisible. I can see the point in that. I have created a 'How to use' section in every iBA file I've made. It get's old quickly.
Oh, and (you probably know this, but…) you can choose your own custom icon for audio. It's limited, as it's only a placeholder image that allows you to play an audio file, there's no ability to pause the audio or stop it once you choose the view as thumbnail choice. Something I'd like to see changed.
Here's a link to Apple feedback page for iBA. Feel free to hammer it with your suggestions.
https://www.apple.com/feedback/ibooks-author.html

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