Design Tokens vs Utility Classes: My Take

Design tokens and utility classes solve different parts of the styling problem. I want a shared vocabulary for colour and spacing whether those values end up in stylesheets or in classes on an element.

My preference is still for templates that are easy to read as documents. But the useful discussion is about how changes travel through the product. If updating a colour means hunting down dozens of near-identical values, the styling approach hasn't given us enough consistency.