If you’re whining about how another company gets away with user-hostile behavior that you’re emulating, you’ve lost the plot.

Figma does allow any agent to connect to their desktop MCP though, they just limit the desktop MCP to read only access. Not sure how that fits into his argument.

I replied to it there, but his reply is either intentionally obtuse or he entirely missed the point.

I'm unfortunately inclined to think its the first because a reply as such from anybody who thought about this for even a minute would realize his reply has literally nothing to do with the original issue.