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> Then you wouldn't have to remove default styling for it to "work out of the box"

I didn't. I removed the CSS styling provided in the example to test that it works perfectly without it.

As OP said in his post description "Base UI doesn’t bundle any styles"

> Barely visible thin light gray lines where the input is supposed to be are endemic

That's a very different complaint, and if as you say "endemic", contradicts your original one that in general they don't render at all.

I imagine that the CSS in the examples are intentionally lightweight exactly because they're unstyled components. It isn't a design system, so is being as unopinionated as possible while demonstrating how to style them.

I don't use the "T" word lightly, but it really does look like you're intentionally being one. (That or poorly informed – you chose which side of Hanlon's razor you sit.)

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> I imagine that the CSS in the examples are intentionally lightweight exactly because they're unstyled components.

An unstyled text input doesn't look like a nearly invisible thin light gray rectangle.

> It isn't a design system, so is being as unopinionated as possible

Then their examples are opinionated with the same hate towards text inputs as every other "accessible unopinionated CSS"

> I don't use the "T" word lightly, but it really does look like you're intentionally being one. (That or poorly informed – you chose which side of Hanlon's razor you sit.)

Vague ad hominem attacks. See, I don't use the "V", "H" and two "A" words lightly either.

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> An unstyled text input doesn't look like a nearly invisible thin light gray rectangle.

Correct – it doesn't. It would bode you well to actually try the thing you're commenting on.

> Vague ad hominem attacks

Then let me be explicit – it's pretty clear that you only came here to troll, because nothing you've said has any basis in fact. Please don't do that here.