When publishing components in a library - any components which have been excluded should be remembered and remain unchecked during each subsequent publish update.  this might be more intuitive than that contextual hide when published option - which effectively does the same thing in a more hidden way. 

Maybe that’s the feedback make unchecking effectively the same as hide when publishing - with an easier reversal option.

Especially in the early stages of creating a design/component library there is a lot of publishing using the component, making tweaks and republishing - each time the user has to unselect certain components they do not want to show up, but need for whatever reason it’s a chore to constantly need to uncheck items each time.  Just make the system remember please.