Thanks for the reply! I think your last point is what worries me the most. I feel like it makes sense to tackle custom attributes, because you own the user management pages. But, I also feel like you're almost never going to be able to support the kind of flexibility customers will need if those fields are anything more than simply metadata.
It's nothing about Clerk specifically, it's just a problem with these kinds of products. I just worry that as your customers grow and scale, they naturally need to leave your platform (or downgrade to an auth-only solution). I'll definitely be curious to see how the product grows, though!
It's not documented yet, but our frontend components leverage an API that was built with the expectation that some developers won't like our designs, or will need something custom we can't accommodate.
In those cases, using the API directly should offer the flexibility you need.
It's nothing about Clerk specifically, it's just a problem with these kinds of products. I just worry that as your customers grow and scale, they naturally need to leave your platform (or downgrade to an auth-only solution). I'll definitely be curious to see how the product grows, though!