I've experienced crosswind components right up to our limits...29 knots direct.
In smallerplanes I've landed when winds were reported at 60 knots...but so variable as to not be able to calculate the exact crosswind.
In a metroliner, I also landed in a 60 knot wind, with unknown crosswind, but quite bumpy.
I have a feeling that modern pilots are losing the ''art'' of flying, including crosswind takeoffs.
I can't imagine why pilots aren't using traditional crosswind techniques...wheel to keep wing down or at worst level into wind, rudder to keep going straight