[throwaway_bad]

I often do use the unstyled input for say range sliders and color pickers. Most component libraries don't include them but they are complicated enough to make you not want to reimplement them. Even if you choose another external library it will be thematically incompatible anyway so you might as well go barebones and accept the OS style.

In general, it's definitely possible to go too far with styling. Sometimes the look and feel of your app does add value but for the vast majority of apps, how your scrollbars and file pickers look doesn't ever matter.

[flyingswift]

I guess one area where I see custom styling as important is visual consistency between browsers. These updates only apply to Chromium browsers, so a sufficiently visually complicated UI might look good in Chrome, but bad in Firefox for instance.

I don't feel super strongly either way, but I think it is important to call out