Indesign → Photoshop?
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^ if everything is isolated and editable, and transfers to PS with no hitches, then it's probably fine.
however that's almost never the case and files not done in PS are (generally) a non-stop cluster-fuck of soft edges, flattened layers, and really small type... but only in some places (ie: no continuity).
I've rebuilt enough of them to know: it almost always ends badly....Which sucks, because inDesign makes a lot of sense for large sites with many pages needing design work. But I think you need a workflow, and devs who know how to work with those files. and designers who know how to prep the file for the devs.
A big issue (I think), is that many (non web), designers don't put emphasis on precision in their designs. In Illustrator or InDesign they drag the handles, reposition things at will, eyeball-it, and when it looks good they're done. However for web in those apps, even something like a stroke needs to be a full pixel value, and the stroked box must be offset by 1/2 the stroke value for it to rasterize sharp. (snap to pixel may help this, not really sure)
If your devs want a PSD. you should probably just make a PSD from the start.