This is a strange take: Native date pickers are broken in every mainstream browser, which is what the majority of our users use. People don't consciously "choos

This is a strange take: Native date pickers are broken in every mainstream browser, which is what the majority of our users use. People don't consciously "choose" browsers. They use whatever was preinstalled or someone recommended them ten years ago. Our customers don't care about other browsers, Open Source software, or the nuance of native input fields. "Look, on AirBnb I can enter dates in a humane way, why is it so hard on your website?" - I just don't get away with recommending them to switch browsers. Having accepted that premise, we can talk about the custom implementations: I would never recommend rolling your own, either. There are several widely used library for date pickers that users are accustomed to, are accessible, and miles ahead of the native controls. There is absolutely nothing wrong with sticking to those libraries until the vendors finally fix their mess.