Comment by rtpg

This issue remains true even with the JS "wrapper" elements.

The number of times I have senen frontend people pull in some frontend component from a library (say, for fancy select widgets) and then have to spend a bunch of time trying to fight the existing bugs in that... and then struggle to swap it out later on for another library with a distinct set of bugs...

UI is hard, so it's hard to have a general thing fit _your_ specific purposes nicely. This is why I think it's super valuable to wrap things you can't control easily. That way you both document what you _do_ use, can fix issues at a bit of a higher level, and can swap out the internals way more easily.

People fight back on me on this on so many projects (the most recent thing: "the LLM won't know about our special UI component" IT WILL! IT CAN READ THE CODE!), but then hit those moments of regrets and end up wrapping stuff anyways.

Especially annoying coming from people who talk about design systems. A base vocabulary is a real good way of enforcing a design system!

I mean this relatively lightly, I understand the qualms at a high level, and coming up with the right abstraction is a skill. I've just felt the burn too many times and have very little issue coming up with very limited abstractractions and relying on tech debt to get my wrapper components out into the world.