helperText is just for errors

[dbonabhealth]

In TextField, there is this code: helperText={showError ? meta.error || meta.submitError : undefined}
that basically ignores any initial value of helperText.

Is there any reason not to have the code like:
helperText={showError ? meta.error || meta.submitError : rest.helperText} ...or something to that effect?

I apologize if I violated your guidelines for requesting a feature.

[optyler]

IMO, we need to split this two things appart.

The component used is MuiFormHelperText and display error messages, then, the variant prop should be error right ?
But if we use the helper text as a real helper, the variant error should not be used...