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Mat

It drives me crazy when people bash and complain about free/open-source frameworks. There were recent posts deriding Material Design and those that use it, but it has many open-source implementations that are free to use and Google isn't mandating it. The same derision was true with bootstrap for many years.

It takes a lot of effort and time to support these frameworks and make them freely available for developers. It is up to everyone if they want to use them and in many cases, they are far better than what individual developers could/would design themselves.