Can you list some of those better options? Just curious what you use.

Not OP, but we've used Ant design and the gov.uk systems with good reception from our clients and only minor hiccups with end user testing

Thanks. I used ANT design a couple of years ago and it was good. I work on enterprise apps and material design just wasn't suitable.

I also like the look of Elastic UI [0], but haven't used it on a project yet, so don't know what the dev experience is.

[0] https://elastic.github.io/eui/#/