No one remembers what the intent was. Just two years ago the whole narrative from the proponents of web components was “the future is here, no need for frameworks, get rid of your reacts and angulars and... and...”

But then people actually tried using them.

So, curiously, the narrative quickly shifted to “oh, these are just primitive APIs never intended for direct use, and only intended for library and framework authors”.

Curiously, at the same time the narrative usually keeps going “react is crap, you should drop it in favor of web components”.

A nice recap from Dan Abramov: https://dev.to/dan_abramov/comment/6kh1 and more in the discussion here: https://dev.to/ben/why-the-react-community-is-missing-the-po...

And we are in yhe comments to an article that literally argues that Web Components will replace frameworks. While half of the people in the comments say “yeah, the intent is for them to be used only by library and framework authors”.

There’s a certain hint of schizophrenia in how Web Components are described by their proponents.