Opinionated by Design: Why I Chose Sensible Defaults Over Endless Configuration

When people hear about a new project scaffolding tool, one of the first questions they ask is:

"Can I choose React Query or TanStack Query?"

"What about pnpm instead of Bun?"

"Can I use ESLint instead of Biome?"

"Can I choose Radix instead of Base UI?"

"Can I skip Tailwind?"

These are reasonable questions. In fact, I asked myself the same ones while building .