Comment by tarkin2

Web components are lighter than frameworks, are they not? That was the biggest benefit I saw: no dependency on an ever changing framework and toolchain.

Decades old apps written in DOM and JS are eminently more maintainable than that written in some no longer maintained backbone / 1.4 django frontend or wherever, with their cacophony of unmaintained tools.

They didn’t seem quite as polished as the latest framework offering but they promised to be around when everyone gets bored of framework x.