We knew that, although meticulously crafted, our current 7-color design system was very limiting and not suited for all use cases.

Last year, I asked the question: Does shadow DOM improve style performance?

In May 2022 over 70,000 developers told us how they learn and level up, which tools they’re using, and what they want.

It is tempting to build abstractions so developers have to do less and build more.

Regardless of whether the title of this blog post is grammatically correct or not, this is a question that I’ve had the opportunity to tackle.