alt Hacker Newsi've seen this critiqued as ugly by people who didn't want to use daisyui's original dropdown which just deferred to the built in controls. now in daisyui's latest release there is an additional dropdown that you can style, because utility is a second rate citizen in design
Usable has to come first. That's what all these designer types are missing. It's user interaction design, not visual design. The interaction is key.