Been building in Framer for a while now, and there's a pattern I keep seeing: designers get 90% of the way to a great site with native tools, then hit a wall the moment they need something Framer just doesn't ship out of the box.

The usual suspects:

1. Scroll-linked interactions beyond the basics. Framer's scroll effects are great for fades and parallax, but the second you want a scrubbing animation tied to scroll position (like a horizontal gallery that scrolls vertically, or a progress-driven SVG draw), you're stuck without a code override.

2. Real form logic. Conditional fields, multi-step forms with progress bars, client-side validation beyond "required" — none of this exists natively. Most designers just link out to Typeform instead of losing the visitor to another tab.

3. Custom cursors and micro-interactions. The small stuff that makes a site feel expensive — magnetic buttons, cursor-follow blobs, hover-triggered reveal text — is almost always a code component, not a Framer-native effect.

Why does this happen? Framer is a design tool first. Code overrides are the escape hatch, and writing React/Framer Motion from scratch is a different skill set than the one that makes someone good at layout and visual design. Most designers who hit this wall either learn just enough code to be dangerous, or quietly avoid these interactions altogether and ship a simpler site than they wanted to.

If you're a designer who's hit this wall — what's the interaction you wanted but couldn't build? Curious what's actually blocking people most.