Maybe you are just working with better designers than I have!
I find they all care about these things, but either their imagination or direction from above gets the best of them and it ruins the party.
Then you are left with change requests that don't fit with the existing design system - a bunch Lego blocks with nobody that wants to play with them anymore.
I would say - on good days - my experience matches yours. On the other days... you are basically being asked to rewrite entire pages to conduct experiments. At that point I have to ask - is the Design request unreasonable, or did we make the wrong decision and prematurely optimize for components instead of just sticking with a more malleable template?
I find they all care about these things, but either their imagination or direction from above gets the best of them and it ruins the party.
Then you are left with change requests that don't fit with the existing design system - a bunch Lego blocks with nobody that wants to play with them anymore.
I would say - on good days - my experience matches yours. On the other days... you are basically being asked to rewrite entire pages to conduct experiments. At that point I have to ask - is the Design request unreasonable, or did we make the wrong decision and prematurely optimize for components instead of just sticking with a more malleable template?