[jjani]

I am. I'm saying that what you see as its main selling point:

> It's easy to customize!

May be very overstated, with lots of users not caring or even knowing about that as a selling point. They just use it for all of the other selling points.

> The thing is literally distributed via copied files and updated via diffs instead of being a package. The entire cargo cult that lead up to that is 100% the idea they'll modify it. It's just either don't out of apathy (and should have just used a component library), or do and do so terribly (and should have just used a component library).

It definitely started out that way. Just like sports brands started out selling trainers for, you know, sports. And now 99.9% of the minutes-worn for them is during non-sports activities. But they're meant for sports! That's their selling point! Sure, most people couldn't care less though, and don't even buy them with the idea of using them for sports.

[BoorishBears]

None of the other selling points are any more applicable to the average dev...

And it didn't just start out that way, the only package is still a cli tool that will then diff your files.

Overall, it really doesn't make sense to paint this all as some now discarded origin story, especially when you're in the comment section of a major launch that's based on shadcn and selling itself on the exact same story.

But if that's how you see it, let's agree to disagree.