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I want the same thing as those guys:

But with one minor difference: I don't like the idea to write manually (a) instead of using \subcaption{}. Why? Because by arranging the figures differently later on, I could forget to change the labels accordingly.

Now I did like the idea of using the stackengine with its \stackinset-command. However, it does not accept \subcaption{} as an argument.

So my minimum non-working example is as follows (the non-working part is the \subcaption{} command at its current location):

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption,subcaption}
\usepackage{stackengine}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \begin{subfigure}{.96\textwidth}
        \stackinset{l}{1in}{b}{1in}{\subcaption{}}{\includegraphics[width=5in]{example-image-a}}
        \label{fig:test}
    \end{subfigure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
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Since it's not so easy to get rid of the skips, rules, and boxes the \caption command would use, I would use \phantomcaption instead (for managing the counter and label) and typeset the sub-caption on my own, e.g.:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption,subcaption}
\usepackage{stackengine}

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \begin{subfigure}{.96\textwidth}
        \phantomcaption
        \stackinset{l}{1in}{b}{1in}{(\thesubfigure) Text}{\includegraphics[width=5in]{example-image-a}}
        \label{fig:test}
    \end{subfigure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

Or if you want to take over the basic formatting options used by the caption package:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{caption}
\usepackage[labelfont=bf,textfont=it,labelsep=endash]{subcaption} % ugly setting, just for demonstration
\usepackage{stackengine}

\makeatletter
\newcommand\makesimplesubcaption{\caption@@@make{\caption@fnum{sub\@captype}}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
    \begin{subfigure}{.96\textwidth}
        \phantomcaption
        \stackinset{l}{1in}{b}{1in}{\makesimplesubcaption{Text}}{\includegraphics[width=5in]{example-image-a}}
        \label{fig:test}
    \end{subfigure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}