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This is in keeping with the overall problem Figma presents to organizations. If you create a place to design software in isolation while eagerly forgetting about real world software concerns, and you bump the seat license cost until only a few can have them, you're going to make early mistakes due to deliberately limited perspective, for which you'll pay later when they're more expensive to correct. Dev mode isn't there to bring in more perspective. It's there to keep the silos separate, for "handoff" rather than really working on it together.

Separately: It doesn't matter whether you downloaded the local app, it's thoroughly a SaaS product, and working offline is the exception to its rule.