"Start from a template, it'll save you time" is the myth that costs intermediate builders the most hours.

"Start from a template, it'll save you time" is the myth that costs intermediate builders the most hours.

For a true beginner, fine. But once you can build, inheriting someone else's template means inheriting their class chaos, their 40 unused global styles, and their interaction spaghetti you have to reverse-engineer before you can change a margin. Unwinding a stranger's structure is slower than building a clean one from a blank canvas with your own naming system. You spend your "saved" time as debugging interest, with penalties.

The correction: build your own starter, not theirs. Fight me in the comments.