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Figma has ~90% market share today. And it's dying. Not because of a single 'Figma killer' (I don't believe one will exist), but because the category itself is dissolving.

So what replaces Figma? Not another platform. Dependencies. Design tools are starting to look like NPM packages you install into your codebase.

Redlining tools, visual canvases, component inspectors — not as features in someone else's SaaS, but as modular packages layered on top of your actual production code.

We're seeing it already with tools like Pencil and Agentation. And it's just the start. The era of one monolithic design tool is ending. What comes next looks more like the developer ecosystem: hundreds of choices, open standards, composable tooling.