This is a bit subjective, but with a starter theme I’d go ahead and overwrite the existing styles as you see fit. You can always reference the original copy if you’re worried about breaking something.
By starter theme, I mean a theme that has a bunch of boilerplate is intended to by copied and modified/added to (_s, for example).
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