I used to think I had to use a component library, but for some cases it seems all I really needed was CSS to give my webapp that material feeling everyone seems to feel more comfortable with.

I now have a more critical eye and look into potential UI components code to decide if it really does need the custom code or if styling alone can get the job done.

Shoelace upending everything to Web Awesome has given me an incentive to revisit this rather then blindly find/replacing all the sl- prefixes to wa- given how much larger it makes my bundle.