Well that’s definitely a disappointing update. As we all know, an estimated time of several months for such a fix means that it is marked as low priority and will keep being postponed, which essentially is no different from not planning to solve it at all.
I think we’ll have to start exploring other alternative design tools like Pixso which offers free dev mode for hand-off scenarios.
Last year, Figma told us there were no worries, saying that the collaborative experience wouldn’t degrade, the Dev Mode was just one more thing. But now the problem we face is that we’ve been hijacked, and the ransom needs to be paid by the frontend engineers. Figma has ruined its reputation, taking its most loyal designer users to be buried together.
We are disappointed with this decision as the collaborative experience advantage of Figma has gradually declined. The development engineers are very dissatisfied with this, and under pressure, we have no choice but to choose other tools for delivery.