[theplatman]

Figma’s dev mode was just a way to take existing functionality and gate it behind a higher price point under the guise of “new functionality”.

As a developers i found it simpler to access css from figma via the old inspect vs. having to toggle in and out of dev mode.

It is shady to take a commonly used feature and move it behind a higher tier after years of offering to people already giving you money. Just classic VC driven startups trying to screw over its loyal customers.

[davedx]

They were hella spammy about devmode too, spamming me with marketing mail about it and denying it was marketing. Shady

[93po]

mark it as spam, it hurts their spam score a lot when users do so, and if it gets bad enough services (like gmail) will stop delivering it to inboxes

[doix]

Yes, everything was better before dev mode. Toggling between the two modes is pretty annoying, it's extra annoying when I think about how I'm paying extra for the inconvenience.

I'd be much happier if they just gave me the old UI with a higher price point, just so I don't have to switch between the two modes.

[joshstrange]

I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in thinking Dev Mode was stupid and worse than what existed before. I don't use Figma a ton right now but I had no issues before Dev Mode and a number of times I was confused on how to get to what I wanted after Dev Mode came out.