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No. Not at all.

Let me explain. I see two groups of bootstrap users:

1. Those that use the framework for JavaScript tooling. Things like dropdowns, hamburger menus, tooltips, etc. They typically don't use any of the prepackaged bootstrap styling. This was me for a long time.

2. Those that use the framework for both aesthetic specific CSS and JavaScript.

Angular helps Group 1 rid themselves of bootstrap. Group 2 is largely helpless.

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So....asking for a friend. But why is using bootstrap for #2 a bad thing?

It's not necessarily a bad thing. What I meant was that it's much harder to convince someone already relying on prepackaged styling to abandon that for a custom UI.

The full-bootstrap-stack is perfectly fine for things like side projects.

It's not, bootstrap gives you a nice starting point to design your application.

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