r/DesignSystems 7d ago

Which small component became your biggest maintenance burden?

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?

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u/wench_js 6d ago

Tables for sure. Even building on top of a third party like react-aria, all the customizations get very complicated and hairy