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We use Telerik components at my current job. They're a solid library, IMO. I'm sure there's better out there, but we've been using them for nearly 15 years at this point and I feel like we get decent value for the money, and their developers get to draw a salary.

I'm not sure how that applies in this situation, since you're choosing to buy into a proprietary platform when plenty of open-source competitive options exist. That's the case for every language/tech stack.

That's a choice, there's lots of FLOSS alternatives... was this a desktop application? In that case, I can see wanting to chose a commercial library as it probably saves a lot of work with the floss/in-the-box alternative options.

That said, for a web cli, there are a ton of options out there without touching anything commercially licensed.