I've directly experienced this and it is roughly as sane and effective as it sounds.

This is exactly my experience of working in an agency. Made worse by Figma defaulting to 1440px so every design only really works at that width.

We only have the Figma and Storybook layers (product not agency) but these two comments paint an accurate picture of the absurdity. Thank you!

Why don’t we just teach the designers code / the coders design? This feels very Programmer-Analyst split

Yah you get this inner platform effect where designers start unwittingly creating their own version of css using Figma and it gets really bespoke really fast.

Don’t hire anyone that is a front end designer and doesn’t implement their own CSS. This applied 15 years ago when it was photoshop people faking design skills.