Ditto, we have a quite a few designers and they mostly seem to struggle with thinking in components. They use design system like a color guide, and we keep reimplementing patterns on many pages.
Yeah that is the exact result I have observed before as well. I'm really curious to hear more examples about how this actually works out well in the end from others.
I recognize that my view of this is from the bottom up in terms of only really having worked for SV startups, but I want to learn more and see if I can't make it work a bit differently this time.
In reality Design doesn't use components and most pages end up being composed of a bunch of one-off components and we waste a ton of time.
As a side effect of this, the app design isn't consistent across pages because we aren't sharing components.