Ah yes I forgot. That was very slightly before my time in the industry. Remember playing around with komposer in college.
That said Penpot can’t even create links or do any sort of routing. It’s not spitting out html and css. It’s spitting out specs that devs can use as reference when coding. PowerPoint is a more robust wysiwyg than penpot by a basic functionality measure.
“advanced users” on forums are rarely very representive of users as a whole.