They were hella spammy about devmode too, spamming me with marketing mail about it and denying it was marketing. Shady
mark it as spam, it hurts their spam score a lot when users do so, and if it gets bad enough services (like gmail) will stop delivering it to inboxes
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.
I'm glad to hear I'm not alone in thinking Dev Mode was stupid and worse than what existed before. I don't use Figma a ton right now but I had no issues before Dev Mode and a number of times I was confused on how to get to what I wanted after Dev Mode came out.
As a developers i found it simpler to access css from figma via the old inspect vs. having to toggle in and out of dev mode.
It is shady to take a commonly used feature and move it behind a higher tier after years of offering to people already giving you money. Just classic VC driven startups trying to screw over its loyal customers.