Wha? Yes, D3 is definitely not a charting library - because it&#x27;s a data-focused, thin wrapper over the DOM &amp; SVG APIs. It&#x27;s designed from the group up to &quot;let you do something slightly different&quot;: that&#x27;s the point. It&#x27;s the low-level primitives you&#x27;d otherwise reinvent.<p>Your experience is totally different from everyone on every team I&#x27;ve used D3 with, and all the people I&#x27;ve taught D3. I can understand &quot;D3 does too little&quot;, but &quot;D3 does too much&quot; is just weird.