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The big take away from software eating the world and everything is in the cloud now, is that making things that can scale down and up wins over specialists' specialized custom hyper optimized tools.

was Word 3.1 better than TeX or Quark Xpress or whatever? No, but it allowed people to do stuff quickly. To get things done. It was bad at scaling up, though.

Then online/cloud tools enlarged the pool even more. And finally it was possible to compete with the curse of the default, the shit forced on the world by OS vendors, corporate office suites.

Figma-like tools are the endpoint that can serve 99% of possible users. Both professionals and clueless casuals (and they don't even need to download and setup anything).