Dashing contributor here: That's great, the default style isn't supposed to be a one-size-fits-all solution, and it's definitely not trying to dictate design decisions.
The real meat of the project is the underlying messaging that passes your data from the server to multiple clients.
You write a job that calls send_data, and Dashing takes care of the rest. There's room for as much customization as you like on the front end.
Dashing was built to run the internal dashboards here at Shopify. As such it's biased towards our existing technology stack. Seeing as we don't use graphite, we had no need to include widgets that support it.
That's why we want people to submit third-party widgets and jobs. We can't cater to all environments ourselves, but others can help out and share their own.
The real meat of the project is the underlying messaging that passes your data from the server to multiple clients.
You write a job that calls send_data, and Dashing takes care of the rest. There's room for as much customization as you like on the front end.