The React Component Pyramid Scheme: An Over-Engineering Crisis

At some point, we stopped writing React components and started worshiping them. The mantra of “reusability” turned from a best practice into a full-blown theology.

Every team has that one engineer preaching the gospel of The Ultimate Component — the one that can handle every layout, color scheme and edge case with a dozen optional props and 500 lines of conditionals.

What began as a noble goal of cleaner architecture has metastasized into a codebase where every file imports every other file, and no one dares touch the base component for…