The variant setup thing is honestly the part that finally clicked for me too, once you get that down the whole workflow just feels different. Only thing I really miss is Sketch's symbol overrides being a bit more forgiving when you're in a hurry, Figma can be kinda strict about it sometimes.

Three years ago a kid called my font choice "boring school stuff", and now I second guess everything under 14pt.

My buddy had a painter “improve” his house colors once, total nightmare, cost him a whole month.