First off, it takes time to grow a design system's coverage. Design systems exist to provide common solutions that are versatile enough to be applied in multiple contexts. To do that successfully, we first need to fully understand those contexts - and that means diverging before we converge.

Ultimately, design systems are not replacing nothing. They’re replacing context-specific (if inefficiently created) solutions.

It doesn’t make sense for product teams to adopt design system components and patterns unless it matches or exceeds the quality of those that they’re already using.