[mch82]

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

Licensing models that don’t scale can cause tremendous problems. Early on, design can become a bottleneck. Later, simple changes might be rejected because the cost of redesign is too high. In the worst cases, developers will work ahead of design to meet deadlines (since not every team can afford an expert in the design tool) and the resulting variances will be challenging to reconcile/resolve.

Expensive, high learning curve tools can introduce silos and bottlenecks into an organization.