I was looking at the release notes to double check my gut feeling that Figma itself has not been getting a lot of love lately. For my personal uses that has been the case. Only vague AI related things, which might be fine but makes me feel a lot of things are left behind. The trigger for posting this was looking at “Code Connect” after reading about a “bug” in Slots that seemed to be “intended behavior” (which is weird). This feature coming from 2024 (!) seems to be in Beta still (according to the blog post). The Github feels completely abandoned.
This reminded me of things like branches (total abandonement), Percentage widths, Slots that feel half baked. The whole grid thing that seems to fizz out. New UI that was not a big success (I am still scanning everytime I select a diffferent layer where things are after all these years). Still not seeing the new App layout with the buttons on the left side (my team does, not me). Etc. Etc.
I was just curious, I am getting the same kind of feeling as I did with Sketch when it started to ignore the design base. Is it just me? Or am I overreacting? Figma is expensive stuff. Would be great for it to get some attention to finish things at least. (Again, I might be missing the plot here, so take it with a grain of salt).