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I believe this is a minority opinion, but I love XD.

It (1) does everything I need, (2) doesn't do things I don't need, (3) is fast and (4) is easy to teach other people.

Considering none of this is true of other Adobe products, it's not surprising that the XD product felt "out of place" to their executives. I imagine several SVP's are quietly relieved to see XD hit the bin.

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I also like XD. I do a little bit of UX design work, and XD feels more intuitive to me than Figma. I still have XD installed as part of Adobe Creative Cloud, and would prefer not to lose it.

XD may be good to use from a UX engineer perspective, but from a web developer perspective, it's not so great.

I occasionally get XD files from designers that I then have to cut up / develop for in HTML/CSS/JS, and XD does not do this well. Figma on the other hand, seems like it is designed really well with considerations for both designers (creating the designs) and developers (turning the designs into a product / project) alike.

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