I share the wish that there was more effort in the browser space to improve the built-in controls but I would also recommend that people thinking they can easil

I share the wish that there was more effort in the browser space to improve the built-in controls but I would also recommend that people thinking they can easily do better try some real usability and especially accessibility testing. One very nice trait of the standard APIs are that they’re very lightweight and people who build assistive tools like screen readers and Braille displays know about and support them. It is so easy for developers to think they have something better after a simple NPM install, until they test it on a slow (i.e. median) phone or watch a blind person try to use their application and then spend weeks trying to improve things. Given how common web forms are it’d be really nice if we had an Interop-style competition focused on making the out of the box experience better for normal people both for the controls integrated in browsers and the myriad of JavaScript widgets.