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If you work on a big team, collaboration is everything. Figma enables collaboration in a way that very few other tools allow. SOTA before Figma was sketch files in dropbox or emailing them back and forth.

A lot of commenters here are lamenting the practicality of modern design culture (which is often centered around figma) for smaller teams / earlier projects where collaboration may not be as much the bottleneck. The tool itself is still very useful for small team collaboration though, and for folks thinking through ideas without having to code them up.

Figma also pioneered putting complex tools into the browser. Today people take multiplayer and 60fps canvas for granted but Figma basically created the space. It was a humongous technical achievement and continues to be a very difficult thing to copy, though folks are obviously trying (e.g. Penpot).

AI conversion of components to code is WIP for all toolmakers but obviously on the roadmap. Another hard problem you're kind of trivializing here.

> why would I want to use figma when I could use a non-laggy product that can convert my designs to code?

Can you list some examples?