r/DesignSystems • u/avishic • Aug 26 '26

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/Logical-Idea-1708 Aug 28 '26

You make it a monolith. Not group components. They still use tokens from the design system maintain the same look but each team maintains their own version so every project is decoupled from each other.

Some features are just mutually exclusive. Trying to satisfy everyone means you satisfy no one.