Comment by lxgr

Had no benefits/was more cumbersome than what?

My colleagues frequently use one of these general-purpose WYSIWYG drawing tools, and I'm not a fan at all – everybody has their own slightly or wildly varying riff on UML or flowcharts, and the result is chaos: Sometimes rectangles are states, sometimes they're decisions; sometimes arrows are labeled state transitions, but other times they're unlabeled and state transitions are also boxes.

Discoverability is also much worse compared to e.g. Mermaid or PlantUML diagrams checked into version control or stored as text source in Wiki articles.