Indeed, certainly nobody is doing an overhaul just to implement the design system, because the business case for that (unfortunately) is too hard to make. And o

Indeed, certainly nobody is doing an overhaul just to implement the design system, because the business case for that (unfortunately) is too hard to make. And obviously, if you've got a DS and building some new front end from scratch then you're going to use it. But in my experience, when upgrading tech or introducing new features that involve cracking open the FE codebase, there is extreme pressure to do the cheapest/fastest thing. If a product manager asks his team how long it would take to do X, then how long it would take to do it AND update various things to use the DS in the process, that extra work seldom gets signed off. "No extra opex on my budget".