@OSUblake With respect, in such a simplistic use case, if I could have figured out the demo then I would have found (a) solution. If the protocol here is to post the svg(s) alone then I apologize; I was simply looking for direction, not the solution - i.e. "hey that's stupid" or "this is a potential better way". I was sure an example of this existed but it appears you can't search this forum? Regardless, I appreciate your input despite my lack of demo and it provided a solution to another potential problem I was having.
@mikel Thank you for providing the demos, I hadn't considered scaling but that is a great, simplistic, solution - I got too hung up on the MorphSVG plugin to consider obvious alternatives.