> Now I’m in a different camp. I use the components the library provides as much as possible, even if they don’t fit perfectly, even if I’d like to have something different. This makes the UI consistent across all pages and elements.

I've seen a lot of developers feel like they have to write their own components as much as necessary and the results are very, very often underwhelming, especially when they have a bunch of deadlines - underdocumented, not as good looking as something dozens of people have polished over months or years and more often than not buggy.

That's why I think that for most developers (myself included, I can describe myself as a full stack developer, but definitely not someone who specializes in UI design) grabbing something that can be used off the shelf will be the more sane thing to do, personally I quite like PrimeVue, PrimeReact and PrimeNG for this, alongside PrimeFlex and PrimeIcons, they all fit okay well enough. Maybe some of the others + Tailwind for the brave.

Here's a concrete example of why something like that is a decent example: https://primevue.org/datepicker/