PSA: Paid $200 for a Figma premium template pack and never used a single screen

I got sucked into buying this huge UI template pack last year for $200. It had like 800 components and 50 full dashboard layouts. Thought it would save me weeks of work on a client project. Ended up spending more time trying to rip out the design system than it would have taken to just build my own. The naming conventions were all in Russian or something, tokens were a mess, and half the icons were missing. I've got the folder sitting in my drafts collecting dust. Has anyone else bought a template pack that looked amazing but turned out to be a total time sink?

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emma_young22h ago

Oh I love the "naming conventions were all in Russian or something" part because I once bought a theme where every single layer was called "frame_2387_copy_12" and I swear the guy just named them by slapping his keyboard. It's like they forgot that us mere mortals actually have to find the button for the login form, you know?

lucaslane20h ago

Bought a "premium" dash template once where every single button state was labeled "button-1, button-2" and like eighty different ones. Spent three hours just renaming everything, then realized the button labeled "button-47" was actually the submit form, not the logout button. My client never even saw the template because I ended up rage-building the whole thing from scratch anyway.