Figma itself is great.

Figjam (digital whiteboarding, sticky notes) is okay, but one might move over to Miro or any other and it wouldn’t really matter which tool you use.

Everything else is a distraction. Devs don’t want or need dev mode. Slides doesn’t make any sense, figma and figjam work just fine for presentation.

The AI tools are really bad (asking for layouts and stuff using AI in figjam is just broken)

Slides was literally made because they realised customers were using figma for presentations.

Being a tool native with the story teller is probably better. Heavily rehearsed presentations are dumb anyway inside a company, we’re not doing PR, there’s no black turtleneck here.

The best presentations at every level are a conversation between the presenter (trying to inform or spur a decision to be made) and the audience.

I really wished they had gone more the way of Linear - focus on doing a few things really well.

At some size, it becomes needed.

For the average employee it will come a time they need to convince higher ups of doing something they don't have any plans to do.

For managers/VPs they'll need to get people onboard for controversial and widely impacting changes.

Rehearsal and a well prepared and presentable message will be needed if you want to put the odds on your side.