[wereHamster]

> […] the licenses are so expensive that people on the product team can’t even make small changes or illustrate concepts

I completely agree.

I don't see the Figma files as an output that designers produce. I see it as a product on its own that people should be able to collaborate on.

I'm not going to stop a designer from sending me pull requests. In fact, for small mundane updates I'd LOVE it, since it would take this burden away from me. In fact, our inhouse designers all have GitHub accounts, so in theory they are able to.

But when I want to tweak a little thing in a Figma file, like adjust naming of the symbols, clean up icons, add more diverse examples of the content to document edge cases, or to have grounds for my next discussion with a designer or engineer, I'm not allowed to. Also quite often the thing that I want to do is not necessarily meant for designers, but for my fellow developers. Things like technical notes for implementation.