@Jeff thank you a lot for this very useful information I hope the patch you provided get into the next release, the skeleton component is basically useless without this patch.
I have this same issue, I almost finished my component with the skeleton 1.3 but after the official release of bp 1.2 decided to wait for the next version of the component, now trying to migrate to the new structure and have more issues than before, I will try what @designodyssey is doing looking into the other official components as I did before.