I only found out about Figma's limitation when I was trying to add the remote MCP server to GitHub Copilot Desktop and kept running into errors. Turns out they only whitelisted GitHub Copilot CLI and had put a pause on enabling any more vendors. Eventually someone (not sure which side) got it working.

Kind of strange to limit edit access only to the Remote MCP when their competitors like Pen[1] and Paper[2] allow any local agent to edit.

[1] https://www.pen.dev/

[2] https://paper.design/

https://www.oreilly.com/radar/mcp-in-practice/

MCP is only as useful as the servers people use are open.

The obvious play to "extract value" from that is to restrict access to bots and offer LLM integration themselves, for a fee.