Call me an old curmudgeon, but the only place where date pickers make sense is in scheduling applications. It is nice to see a calendar when picking a date for

Call me an old curmudgeon, but the only place where date pickers make sense is in scheduling applications. It is nice to see a calendar when picking a date for an Airbnb booking. Picking a date for a future event is an entirely different use case than choosing a date in the past. The former is more of an exploratory activity; you are interested in things like the day of the week, proximity to holidays, availabilities, and all kinds of information, whereas a visual depiction of a calendar conveys valuable information, information that is entirely superfluous when picking a date in the past. But registering dates is slow and cumbersome, more so if those dates are removed a few years ago, like DOBs and other similar kinds of dates. Also, anything past the current month is a chore; manual input is usually faster and less error-prone.