Figma removed `window.figma` on view-only pages today

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.

It's a bit selfish, but this kind of behavior motivates me against recommending good things to my peers. Whenever I like something a lot, I'm now afraid of sharing it, because the sooner it becomes successful, the sooner it will enter the enshittification phase and become worse.

I guess that after the Adobe acquisition failed and their leadership missing out on those sweet, sweet billions of exit dollars, they now decided to do what Adobe would've done anyway, squeeze out as much money as possible as quickly as possible before everything falls apart.

Then again, people that are still Figma customers should be okay with that. They didn't jump ship after the initial Adobe takeover announcement, so they are clearly not concerned about enshittification and price-gouging - so let them have what they want.

So this is kind of tangentially related here, but is there a "state-of-the-art" or best practices on digging through big JS apps / frameworks / objects? Ultimately this is all code running on my machine, so it feels like it should be accessible in the console somewhere.

I've had to do a fair amount of this with a Chrome extension I maintain that hooks in to routing (creating bike / running routes) sites, and fortunately these mostly use React and I'm decently familiar with how to hook in to that.

But is there a limit here? Is there a way to actually keep code from being inaccessible to the console (aside from obfuscation / compiling to wasm)?

In practice the vast majority of designers are using Mac, so it's not like it not being cross platform was the problem.

The thing that made Sketch lose against Figma was that they never really tackled the issue of collaboration until Figma came along, leaving it for 3rd parties like Invision and others to solve.

Now they have most of the collaboration features they were missing, but by then it was too late and Figma had all the mindshare.

But if Figma keeps following this route, who knows. We might see Sketch grow in mindshare again.