I think design systems (much as I love them) create an environment where higher order interaction design skills become much more important than visual design skills, resulting in a generation of designers who aren’t especially good at visual design. https://twitter.com/hvpandya/status/1322463314631290880

I see folks with really polished portfolios, who are unable to create a design from scratch, because their skill is really the ability to assemble an interface from its constituent Lego bricks.

If you follow the popular narrative that job titles (which typically indicate a specialism) are meaningless and everybody is a designer, the natural result is a lack of depth in certain areas.

This is what happens when you take a craft skill like design and attempt to industrialise it for the sake of efficiency and scale. You end up with assemblers rather than originators.