Thank you!! Well, that doesn't seem to be a real scenario. Developers will never ask "Hey, I need to see the PRIMARY button "Label, Icon + Label, Label + Icon, Icon", all its states "Active, Focus, Hover, etc..", all its sizes "Small, Medium, etc..." AND NOW show me exactly the same thing but for the Secondary and then for the tertiary :)

They want to know what they have to build. As soon as they have a foundation created (i.e. base medium Button) it is a question of applying modifiers "Ah, in the secondary its all the same, just the background-color property changed, lets override it then with a modifier.

But since the exercise is about being able to achieve the same result, with less effort, then yes.. you should be able to achieve the same amount of button variations with less construction blocks.