My concerns with these cloud only solutions is that you lose control and you are locked in. See what happened to creatives in Venezuela when Adobe had to cut of

My concerns with these cloud only solutions is that you lose control and you are locked in. See what happened to creatives in Venezuela when Adobe had to cut off access because of some trade sanctions. If you're a freelancer I'd rather use native apps that have a perpetual license, like the Affinity apps. If you're part of a bigger team and need collaboration features or easier hand off to engineering teams then yes I think Figma is great.