Not to further derail the conversation @Phy but this massively resonates with me as well. I’ve been mostly in Figma land since around 2018/19 but never “loved” it the way I once loved Sketch. I was looking for an out around the time of the Adobe deal and during some pretty irresponsible rollout of features and config this year was kind of the last straw with the repositioning towards PMs and AI BS. My personal/freelance projects have all be migrated to sketch and will stay there now indefinitely. My current team use Figma still but going forward I’m going to be advocating for Sketch as well provided this inertia remains.
I’d personally take lots of small releases that chip away at polish and help close the gap over, big shouty releases. It does a lot to remind people that sketch is still here and the most viable alternative to Figma. Penpot is very rough around the edges and I think trying to replicate Figma 1:1 is a terrible idea.
I had forgotten that despite some workflow shortcomings, Sketch is not only SO close, but also legitimately fun to use