Differences between chakra-ui, other frameworks?

[tony]

Hi! Thank you for the project!

I am using chakra-ui on a few websites and enjoy the components, the prop interface, etc. But my theme styling stopped applying after a routine package update.

Finding the underlying cause is nearly impossible as the theme system is so opaque. I can't tell where the point of failure is.

I found this project through chakra-ui's styled-system thread: chakra-ui/chakra-ui#4614 -> styled-system/styled-system#1547 (comment)

When moving back to plain-old @emotion/* - I realize how many things chakra-ui does to help I've taken for granted. Still - there is a general burden of having a potentially overengineered framework as a dependency can be a very big hassle down the road.

What motivated you to create spicy-ui? Do you have any guidelines you use to make things more maintainable?