[refulgentis]

There's this, which is more "will we fire all the designers?" (No), and there's the other massive problem: they were a nice, simple, web-native thing that was easily positioned to displace Photoshop and Sketch.app.

They never really successfully landed things that we used to call "major version bumps" and it's devolved into quite a mess. Not anywhere near Photoshop-level, but...it's a strange situation to me because you could build a successful business based on the premise of "that, but only 60% of it, with 5% of the headcount"

[novok]

As a mobile engineer, I do not have the visual & product skills that designers have. They can create something visually appealing and aligned much faster than I can and have all sorts of skill sets that take a while to hone. I might have more taste than the typical backend engineer, but it doesn't really translate to visual skills to the level of most designers.