Also, you'll definitely start seeing edges faster. Things like touch event libraries, animation libraries, maplibre/dataviz/etc. I'd say that the solid ecosystem is at the point where you'll see 1-2 libraries for most things, but if those libraries aren't quite right for you, you can very quickly find yourself digging deeper than you'd like.
That being said, as parent stated, integrating vanilla libs isn't so hard. And also, there is a... solid... amount of people building headless libraries specifically for the ecosystem, which are quite useful (For example, I recently came across https://corvu.dev, which I've started integrating here and there). What I mean to say is less that solid has a poor ecosystem, and more that there isn't the infinite easy-access vibe-code-able pop-in-lib-to-solve-your-problem ecosystem of react.
Even with the shallow ecosystem, solidjs has been quite enjoyable to me. Also, in the two years I've been using it, I think I've built up enough of my own personal ecosystem that I don't really need to reach towards external dependencies all that much, which feels very nice.
> Luckily integrating vanilla (or "headless") JS libs is dead simple once you have enough experience.
Good to know. I expect to need to write my own wrappers for certain things that are more niche, but some frameworks definitely make it easier than others, and I do tire of wrapping the same 153 events and properties and such for some component yet again when [framework of the month] has an annoying way of doing this