A common UX anti-pattern: software that organizes items in a user-defined hierarchy that permits only a fixed number of levels, calls the same thing something different on each level, and gives you arbitrarily different operations and UI at each level.
The generally excellent Things to-do list manager is an egregious example. It has areas, projects, tasks, and checklists, all of which are “things I need to do,” but they’re conceptualized completely differently at each level, and what it allows you to do and how is arbitrary. 
I’m struggling now with the generally excellent Discord chat/forum system, which has a fixed three-level hierarchy of containers for messages (“categories,” “channels,” “threads”), each of which has a random subset of the capabilities you’d want.
If everyone programmed in Lisp, which is the only correct programming language, this would never happen.
https://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1487482046381391872
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