Add the annotations feature to design mode

+1, it’s annoying to switch everytime, plus it’s a bit slow

comments and annotations have different uses

The annotations are often vastly superior way to leave comments to the design compared to the comments feature, which tend to get in the way, are easily displaced/unlinked from the Frame they were supposed to annotate etc. The problem here is that if you want to use it to leave comments that all stakeholders can see, not just devs, it would require the very expensive Dev mode seat. Surely you can justify the Dev mode with other features besides this very basic upgrade to the existing, flawed comments feature?

I just got a popup in Figma saying that annotations can be used been in design mode as well. I guess this is being rolled out in parallel with the updated plans.

This is still not useful for me in a big design team (and i would warrant most users). 
Most of my devs and stakeholders are on a free seat, because they only need to view designs, and they can’t even see what any annotation says.

Having this available to editors is actually a problem, because as an admin, I can’t just disable this functionality. I have to manually tell people not to use it, and hope everyone complies, before we get an avalanche of people complaining for not being able to read annotations.
 

I just got a popup in Figma saying that annotations can be used been in design mode as well. I guess this is being rolled out in parallel with the updated plans.

This is still not useful for me in a big design team (and i would warrant most users). 
Most of my devs and stakeholders are on a free seat, because they only need to view designs, and they can’t even see what any annotation says.

Having this available to editors is actually a problem, because as an admin, I can’t just disable this functionality. I have to manually tell people not to use it, and hope everyone complies, before we get an avalanche of people complaining for not being able to read annotations.
 

Same for me! Really annoying, I want to share my annotations with stakeholders who really need figma just to see the design. We need to have this annotations available also for viewers if is related to design.