Comment by no_wizard

>These are complaints about the designer you are working with and the deliverables they're choosing to give you, are they not?

It is, to some degree, but the tools don't help any related party enforce consistency that will translate to the broader output of that work, that doesn't help matters very much.

In addition, designers themselves by and large don't seem to care enough about consistency like this. Engineers have design systems (ideally) that they pull from, but I'm still shocked in 2025 there is no good 1-1 communication of imposing the constraints of a design system in the designer <> engineer workflow.

Not to mention, for every designer I know that does adopt features of the tool that make this easier, like auto layout, there's a much greater number of designers that refuse to use them.

Seemingly, engineers hold themselves to a higher standard of consistency than designers do. I've seen this pattern too many times and its the only reasonable conclusion I've been able to draw. I was even hired to help streamline engineering and design work together and share as much as possible to get a corporate design system adopted, and I always had a hell of alot more resistance and argument with the design side of that equation on this.

edit: after seeing someone from Figma comment, I feel its unlikely it will ever have any of these types of features, which is a shame