To echo some other points made in this thread, custom UI is pretty much the norm because the aesthetic part of it is seasonal. We recently built probably the ni

To echo some other points made in this thread, custom UI is pretty much the norm because the aesthetic part of it is seasonal. We recently built probably the nicest looking enterprise app within our company (even I was shocked when I first saw the designs, it was light years ahead of everything else at the company). Six months later it started to look dated. Design language that models certain user flows feel old over time, and obviously the aesthetic is completely operating under the laws of fashion, things stop looking fresh fast. This is all important because other products within the company can start to look and feel better, and definitely so can competing products by other companies. It happens so fast. Has anyone looked at MaterialUI lately? It looks dated. The new design paradigms are coming, and whether you like it or not, it’s going to make your current stuff look sluggish. So yeah, no-code tools could quickly build the design of the day, but today’s designs were already yesterday’s design yesterday. Lastly, from my experience Triplebyte does not really Leetcode their frontend people. Which means the sales pitch for people they certify for front end has to be centered around ‘UI developer’ (html/css/modest js) vs software engineer. They have an incentive to push some kind of narrative here.