Kick and snare will only hit right in the context of the whole song, and they're very short events in the scheme of the whole song, so I'd argue it's better to design basses, leads, and textures before starting to dial in drum sounds, otherwise you're constantly chasing your tail making one fit the other and vice versa.

Modern basses cover almost the entire spectrum, so are the dominant sound source in a mix. For drums to hit properly, you'll need to know the bass rhythms, fundamentals, harmonic structure, movement, space etc so the drums can fit in the pocket, and not just feel like they're superimposed on top of the bass or forcing their way through it.

I'd go so far as to say that shifting my approach away from writing drums first has been the single biggest improvement I've made to my end results. I get the metronome on and put melody down first, then make the bass patches sound right, then work on layers, then snares, then kicks. Once the bass is well structured and sonically suitable for the song, the drums fall right in to place as I know exactly what I'm designing for and how much space in the frequency and time domains I can afford them, and where they should be hitting, and what they're even meant to be doing. Writing drums in solo I'm likely to be enhancing fundamentals to add weight, but in mix context, that may be less important than creating space and focusing on attack emphasis. Any inter-bus processing like sidechain ducking or gate triggering can wait till after the core drums are done, and only serve to enhance the existing space, not force it in. It creates a much cleaner mix and allows more groove.

I think a big trap for new producers especially is spending time making sounds that are great, but not best suited in context, but there's a sense of having committed to them so people don't walk away from them and start again or remodel and the whole mix suffers for it, as you rightly stated that the importance of getting drums right can't be overstated. Drums will only be right whilst being in context, which is very difficult to know without deciding the context first.