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Do you potentially see a middle ground where you could export reliably optimizeable assets like CSS and design tokens, and then instead of trying to export a perfect representation of the design, you could export a high-level scaffold that would at least get the developers started, perhaps by laying out named - but not implemented - components (ideally following a predefined architecture template).

Code frameworks have long found success with this scaffolding approach, where you can provide structural hints/direction to the average intermediate/junior developer who can handle the component-by-component implementation but might need a hand with broader architecture decisions.

Most large enterprises I've seen are full of exactly these kinds of devs who are primarily tasked with component/page-level implementation, but if you leave them to make decisions about how to separate and lay out components, you get a lot of inconsistency across your teams, even when the designs are consistent.

This would be a valuable problem to solve that I haven't seen talked about much.



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