[jddddd]

I've been both, currently a developer. My 2 cents. Designers work in the "What we would love to build" space while developers work in the "What can we build" space. Those worlds are incompatible.

Paraphrased comments I've heard in the past month.

"Yes our small margin is always 8px but it didn't look good in this confirmation modal so I changed it, that's no big deal right?" (a designer that doesn't design based on the design system is a joke)

"Here is a link to the figma file ... no not that one, it's the 5th one from the left after you scroll way to the bottom" (I've never told a designer to start up a dev environment and figure out where the code is for whatever feature they are designing, why do I have to open figma and hunt around?)

[bliteben]

Designers love to come up with contrived examples, that they know will never work with user provided input, but they want to get the design done.