Companies do make/buy decisions on everything, it just software. Cleaning services are not expensive, yet companies contract them instead of hiring staff.
This is called transaction cost economics, if anyone’s interested.
Yes, this is a spreadsheet-like model with crud. Most software is.
Users don't care whether a product is "just crud" or not. The value comes from what the spreadsheet-like model looks like, and how it and its associated crud operators map onto the real world, helping a real human being to get things done. It's never about "the technology".
Many developers dislike this fact about the world because they are more interested in technology than solving people's problems.
Developing that well-working model and ux takes time and effort. Without an associated business model you cannot spend thousands of man hours to do that. Hence software tend to be for-profit saas, and not open source TUI apps.
Many developers dislike this fact about the world because they wish they could work on technology and not have to care about economic reality.
Figma has an isolation mode for individual vectors, press enter while it’s selected.
Not what you’re after, but working with groups in Figma can be handy.
Try cmd+click to select elements inside groups directly. Then shift+enter to select the parent group. You can do enter again to select all elements in the group. You can cycle selection in the group with tab. All of this works with multi-select, which can be very efficient.
IMO working with groups in Figma is much more powerful than illustrator Depends what you are trying to do, of course.
Maybe I'm missing something but pressing enter with the group selected doesn't really isolate the group. It's the same as double clicking a group.
Objects in front of the group are not removed/hidden and you can still select objects outside the group. Even worse, accidentally selecting an object outside the group exits the group.
Illustrator has a tool to select objects inside a group too although never use it.
I guess I can try to argue that it if it weren't as generally useful as Helvetica it wouldn't have been made the default in Figma and it wouldn't be, well, so generally used.
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