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I use them very occasionally for design pattern inspiration or for visual inspiration. I've never used one as it's intended, as a drag and drop library for your project.

The initial draw of UI kits is if you need to work quickly. But you soon find that, as you mentioned, customising for your brand identity, your content etc leads to more work than actually just creating your own assets from scratch.