Robert Smith

Before getting rid of Visual Studio, I'd recommend looking at the extensions you installed for it and try disabling some to see if those could be the cause of your performance issues. The same goes for your O/S as well. I doubt that Eclipse will be any faster than Visual Studio. Not sure about Webstorm. You can always try Atom or Sublime text, which I've tried several and decided on Visual Studio Code.

I've used material UI and had great success with it on React projects. Semantic UI is also another great option https://semantic-ui.com/.

When you say its "overkill", I would think long term. I do a lot of small projects not only for the purpose of the project, but also for learning, future projects and to use professionaly. It's a long-term investment.