Is it common to do computer vision without using the opencv/cv2 library?

I'm trying to 'distill' the process to embed pretrained models on smaller hardware. It seems like everyone references cv2 in their code, even to just stream a webcamera or display images. Opencv is great code, works really well on most hardware, but is BIG! Am I missing something?

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