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    Working with custom "fantasy" elements is quite
    typical of modern frontend development

And eating too much fat is quite typical of the modern diet. I prefer to eat healthy nontheless.

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This isn't quite analogous. Developers use custom components because they encapsulate a common structure in Web apps not provided out of the box in vanilla HTML.

To use a more accurate analogy, they are akin to building an ALU with the use of a an adder (a fantasy component abstracting away the NAND gates) rather than completely in NAND gates.

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