Despite having a lot of experience making them and using them, and despite them being a keyword a lot of companies ask for in job postings, I took any mention of "design systems" out of my resume because I would prefer to work for a company that didn't index on designers who rely on design systems. I've just seen them used as bludgeons too often, i.e. "why would we implement this design when it doesn't match our design system?" well, because it's the right way to do it in this new case we've never seen before. I think design systems and component libraries become a way to reuse existing work instead of rethink and rework, which is convenient but often antithetical to doing the right thing in a changing environment. I understand that product teams have to move quickly. I'm here to do work I'm proud of, which sometimes brings me into tension with the organization's desire to save time and labor, which is to say money. Design systems—not the theoretical idea of them, but the way they are applied in the real world—are becoming a symbol of that for me.