Hey @Dustin_Hansen2, thank you for sharing this feedback!
I’ll make sure to pass it along to the team for consideration, as having more control over detaching nested instances would be a helpful improvement.
Feel free to upvote this suggestion as well, it really does help with prioritizing features on Figma’s roadmap.

Thank you,
Gayani

I'm totally on board with this! I really need to be able to adjust the component from within the parent while still having access to the parent’s variables. That flexibility would make a huge difference for me! How do we vote for things we need/want?? Cause I can guarantee there are a ton of people who would be on board with this!