Slightly related: I was in an interview once where it was the CEO, lead dev, and lead designer and inevitable "What are your weaknesses?" question came up. I answered honestly, which was that not only am I really bad at design, I also have issues extrapolating for design systems. It's really hard for me to land on something I think looks okay and in that process almost inevitably always makes it worse. The designer interviewing me took this personally and laid into me about it.

It's not the first time, either. They didn't like the non-stop questions about how things should look and really wanted it to be a one-and-done type of handoff. Even at marketing and advertising agencies, I was fighting with them to give me samples of how things not in their design spec should look. I'm not saying I was right, but that's just a huge Achilles heal for me.

So when someone says

> free, unlimited iteration, unbothered

That's immediately what comes to mind. Not necessarily money, but time and patience. Bolt (which is the tool I use for protyping) never gets mad me. It might not produce the best designs, but they are miles ahead of what I'm capable of. When I'm done, I'll have a real designer make it look better, but until then I don't have to worry about pissing someone off.