[whatever1616]

> Only the very biggest platforms (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Apple) should be spending any time on "design systems".

Like what they have some superior knowledge or ability to design ?

Let me remind you they weren't always tech giants, what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing.

[xnx]

> Like what they have some superior knowledge or ability to design ?

No, but they have the scale where that level of specialty makes sense. McDonald's has food chemists on staff, but the local burger joint does not.

> what if we said lets stop innovating before apple or any of these became a thing

It's important for any organization to know what its competitive advantage is and where to spend its innovation tokens. D.R. Horton is the number one homebuilder in the United States, but they don't make their own light switches.

[whatever1616]

> No, but they have the scale where that level of specialty makes sense. McDonald's has food chemists on staff, but the local burger joint does not.

Now they do, they didnt always, you have to start from somewhere, you always start small you dont just become a huge company instantly. Also wtf kind of an analogy is that ? Oh yeah chemists never innovate on your own or at a small scale we have big corpos doing it so you guys can stop now thanks

I think you have heard the rather famous quote "Its better to be a pirate than join the navy", small scale stuff can move a lot lot faster than some huge conglomerate.

I agree that not everyone needs to roll their own design but i think your conclusion is rather idiotic.