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

$$$ Adobe comin for their investment $$$

$$$ Adobe comin for their investment $$$

For whatever it’s worth, Adobe’s planned acquisition of Figma hasn’t actually been completed yet (it remains caught up in various regulatory/antitrust investigations).

So this was 100% a Figma decision that maybe only feels like it rhymes with Adobe’s general approach to squeezing recurring revenue blood from their software monopoly stones.

I just discovered that there is a limit of 4 modes, and I’m quite disappointed. I’m currently retrieving various texts from a Google Sheet to complete the descriptions of a showcase featuring multiple works. These texts change depending on the mode, which is linked to a particular case. Unfortunately, this limitation is hindering me from achieving my desired results because I’m limited to only 4 modes. I hope that this restriction will be removed soon.

@Figma_Moderation @dvaliao

Some simple use cases to share with the variable team.

I can design a unique button size, and use sizes to make others sizes, so I don’t need to design the same component over and over again. Avatar component as well.

May you or someone from the team could come to this post and explain why did you guys made this this “cap” decision, and when this will be a definitive?

Best regards

While we are at it, add 2 modes to the Starter plan.
I cannot even try this feature without paying.
This is very different from the philosophy of Figma in the beginning, you could basically do anything in Pro and the pricing would scale with your team size.

Now we are also cutting features, to force people into paid, even before being able to try a feature. Adobe enshittification is already here.

I really think the 4 modes limit is laughable. If you think about it logically. There can be no justification for it. Just because you are a freelancer or a small team shouldn’t mean your design capabilities are restricted. This thread has been active now for four months. Will we get an explanation of why soon?

I cant believe we still only have 4 modes. This is a joke.

Adding to the fire. I’ve tried to work around the 4 modes and it has made my design system unnecessarily complicated and even harder to manage. Really, how much revenue are they losing from their ALREADY PAYING USERS by unlocking 6 other modes?

Even if we could pay a small amount for an extra 10 modes or something. My team would get no other value from an enterprise plan. This just feels like a gross upsell that kills the feature.

Yeah, totally agree with @DavidDDX . It would be fine to have the possibility to buy extra modes in the Pro plan. I don’t need 40 modes and other features; it’s a frustrating and inconvenient limitation for creating multi theme design systems.