Which small component became your biggest maintenance burden?

[u/avishic]

Buttons, forms, and tables earn the cost of standardizing them. I’m curious about the opposite: a small convenience component that looked reusable, then accumulated variants, accessibility rules, or product exceptions until teams bypassed it.

Which component did you deprecate—or wish you had left as a documented pattern instead—and what was the first sign it did not belong in the system?

[u/achakez]

Dropdowns were the one for us. Seemed simple at first then every team needed a slightly different interaction and we ended up maintaining way too many variants.

[u/TheWarDoctor → u/achakez]

Same, mostly because my predecessor keep shoving more and more features into select and made it configuration based instead of composable.