[imbnwa]

This was also React's initial pitch as well: getting DOM updates right is hard, use vDom instead!

The truth is that the majority of frontend development is devs racing to shovle the latest stack of tickets that management cooked up with little collaboration or rhyme and reason into the Done column of JIRA (web dev is particularly imperiled by shitty lay management), any DX affordance they can get their hands on is valuable to this goal

Concurrently, designers are pumping out comps as fast as possible to match pace with no real system cohering the whole thing, you need a design system to provide an "abstract interface", so to speak, for your CSS to really transcend into real separation.

This is just what I've observed working at my comp