Isn't it a good thing the web became so accessible? It's super easy to find ressources free to use.

I think for an average landing page / small shop it's perfectly fine. They can go online faster with tools like this.

For more complex projects you'd tweak the components of course but it helps a lot that you can see the whole blocks rendered in advance and can prototype way faster this way.

Honestly the bloat and ergonomics of heavily customizable generic component libraries aren't great. Copy and pasting a simple component to make the specific customizations you want helps reduce JS ecosystem churn and dependency pain. Popularity of libraries like shadcn/ui [1] are good acknowledgements of that.

[1] https://ui.shadcn.com/

We already had that with Dreamweaver

Webdev has always been a focus point for the industry's love of commoditization, unfortunately.

What these libraries don't do is confer any design sense. You still have to know how to put the components together well, which means you'll spend way more time than expected adjusting sizing, spacing, and thinking about responsive design.

It’s basically web widgets. Nothing wrong with it really.

Not really. Now write the code in React/Angular/etc to make it all work together.

So? If you like coding but hate design this sort of thing can help get something reasonable up and running without analysis paralysis.

Just do it in Wordpress. Then you don’t even need the designer or developer, just a credit card.

I'm in this comment and I don't like it