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Let's address the elephant in the digital room: Figma's compulsive need to force-feed updates to its users like some overzealous IT administrator. This isn't software evolution - it's digital waterboarding. The complete disregard for user autonomy in their update policy would make even Windows Update blush.

Without warning or consent, we're suddenly greeted with relocated features playing hide-and-seek, shortcut keys that now trigger random functions like digital slot machines, and UI elements rearranged with the logic of a toddler playing Tetris. That carefully cultivated muscle memory? Gone. That optimized workflow? Obliterated. All sacrificed at the altar of "progress" that feels suspiciously like change for change's sake.

The most infuriating part? The complete lack of new bottom bar. While we're scrambling to meet deadlines, Figma smugly insists we pause our actual work to play archaeological dig through their new interface. Their update notes read like fortune cookie wisdom - "Improved user experience" and "Streamlined workflows" - corporate speak for "We moved your cheese, deal with it."

This isn't innovation - it's productivity sabotage dressed in Silicon Valley jargon. True user-centric design respects established workflows and offers transitional support. Figma's approach? A digital dictatorship where veteran users are punished for daring to develop efficiency. Every forced update doesn't feel like an upgrade, but a hostile takeover of our carefully crafted work environment.

To the Figma team: We're not lab rats in your UX experiments. Let us opt-out, phase changes gradually, or at minimum provide detailed migration paths. Until then, your "improvements" remain glorified productivity taxes that benefit nobody but your version control system.

It is estimated that Figma has become a certainty, and the UI in the future will not be changed back. They have their own operational strategy. From the config conference, they are still quite satisfied with themselves, and there are many users who support them. Most community users are not easy to use, but from the trend, this update features>design, so he doesn't change it. Gradually, he will cook a frog in the water. Most people are also starting to adapt to UI3 now. Also, you can see from the config conference that you understand why they did it this way. They gave up the UX experience and turned to functional design. Figma's current philosophy is: profit>functionality>design>UX, so it is gradually understood. Old users may be very unwilling, but this... There's nothing we can do about it either.


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