[LAUNCHED] All plans should offer more than 4 variable modes

10-12 modes please. It’s so restricting for an agency like mine.

Seems like an intentional throttling of innovation for the sake of appeasing the new high table? and believe me, I get it, the world is a vampire. 4 mode limit seems like it makes sense until you realize how many other debilitating limitations that the org-level accounts have to survive through on a daily basis.
4 mode limit? Millions of dollars to upgrade?! No type/ stroke weight/variables switching /elevation support? Do you guys have friends in real companies that you run this by? Cuz that’s…an aggressively pointless limitation that renders this unusable in a professional setting. Still luv ya. But plz plz plz help 😭🙏❤️. We are getting burnt out.

This limitation of having only four modes for the Org Plan feels like Adobe’s finally getting into monetization mode here.

This is such an absurd arbitrary limit for this functionality.

Organisation has the same 4 modes as professional, it should be more. At least halfway between Professional and Enterprise.

It seems to me that limiting the amount of variable modes is an absurd money grab, to push people into Enterprise without having a use for any of the other Enterprise features.

Absolutely. 4 variable modes for $12/mo/editor or 40 variable modes for $75/mo/editor. This is a greedy taste of honey monetization approach.

The scale here is entirely greedy and kneecaps our usage of variables. What’s next? A limit on the number of styles? Pages? Components?

I understand that a me too post like these are typically discouraged. But, there was no way to strongly voice dissatisfaction in a detailed way. So, thank you for reading and come on, capping variable modes along subscription plans is unnecessary.

Having recently delved into how these can be used for a design system, I can honestly report that modes have everything to do with design and nothing to do with employee structure.

The Enterprise tier seems to be all about employee structure EXCEPT for this modes feature.

This is an issue for us as well, if we would be able to upgrade to entreprise with only a few seats that would solve the issue, but there is a minimum of seats (that we don’t need) that you have to pay for to upgrade. Maybe 8-10 modes for Org plans make more sense? and this is still a great incentive for pro teams to upgrade to org.

I totally agree this is a design feature, not a company size feature. I at least need 15 modes because our company does a lot of co-branding. I was willing to go to enterprise while I’m the only designer in the company, but the minimum is $5000 per year. Did anyone find hacky loop arounds already?