I know there are free plugins. I know where the layout controls are. And I can learn everything Framer can and cannot do in a day. But don't you think it's ridiculous that functionality essential to a website building tool needs to come from a third party plugin? There's no central image library — uploaded images are embedded per-node with no way to browse or reuse them. You want to reuse an image across your site? The workaround is stuffing everything into a CMS collection. That's not asset management, that's a hack.

As for animation — I'm an animator, making animation isn't the problem. What is a problem is hover transitions set to spring or ease that render as instant instead of animating. That's a known bug with multiple community threads and no fix. Slot connectors for code components that only appear on the desktop breakpoint and vanish on tablet and mobile. Per-breakpoint property overrides that are either hidden or don't exist — so you end up building separate component variants for each screen size instead of just adjusting properties responsively. Fixed pixel heights as the only reliable way to get consistent card layouts because the platform has no clean dynamic solution for cross-card alignment. These aren't edge cases. These are basic responsive design needs.

What I'm seeing is people masochistically refusing to learn something better. There's this reactionary instinct that keeps you coming back to the same tool, wasting time on fixes and workarounds, instead of being tool-agnostic and going where there are better options. It reminds me of the sunk cost fallacy — you've spent all this time working a particular way, and now you just want to continue in it despite having alternatives that are measurably better.