For years, the standard playbook for scaffolding a React admin dashboard was to install a massive UI library like MUI or AntDesign. It gets you moving fast on day one, but by month three, you are fighting specificity wars, overriding inline styles, and staring at a massive JavaScript bundle. I wanted a clean break from that workflow. I needed an architecture that gave me complete design control without sacrificing performance. So, I built and open-sourced Exo-Dash (available free on GitHub) ...