I’m having the exact same issue as @Dominique_Hogenboom in my organization. Spent years perfecting the design system everybody uses, built around styles and components. I see the enormous added value variables can bring and I fully support the move towards development so I love to dig in to variables but I honestly don’t see the point in keeping my styles anymore (except for storing multiple values like gradient colours). At this point it feels I will spend a lot of time reorganizing the files to listen to variables instead (I have at least 5 multi-paged design files depending on my design system). So I’m not fully capturing Figma’s vision ons this. Found another valuable topic on it that deals with the same issue:
Would like to have the view of @Figma_Support on this.
ps @Anna_Stevenson The plugin you mention works wonderfully well but make styles redundant as well