The composite design pattern pattern does not have any major drawbacks. It really is applicable in specific cases. One thing developers should be careful about is when they deal with massive hierarchies. The reason is that in such cases, we could have really deeply recursive nested items and this could cause stack overflow issues.
What it is not so good for
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