Nice work! I have a no-dependencies project with somewhat similar goals in frameable/el[0], which takes more inspiration from Vue in its interface.
WebComponents give us so much, but just not quite enough to be usable on their own without a little bit more on top. Reactivity with observable store and templating with event binding are the big missing pieces.
The main reason is that they're too low-level to use directly.
They do a lot, but stop just short of being useful without something of a framework on top. I tried hard to use them directly, but found that it was untenable without sensible template interpolation, and without helpers for event binding.
Here's my shot at the smallest possible "framework" atop Web Components that make them workable (and even enjoyable) as an application developer:
It's just ~10 SLOC, admittedly dense, but which make a world of difference in terms of usability. With that in place, now you can write markup in a style not too dissimilar from React or Vue, like...
<button @click="increment">${this.count}</button>
Whereas without, you need to bind your own events and manage your own template interpolation with sanitizing, handling conditionals, loops, and all the rest.
If we could get something in this direction adopted into the spec, it would open up a lot of use cases for Web Components that it just can't address as-is.
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WebComponents give us so much, but just not quite enough to be usable on their own without a little bit more on top. Reactivity with observable store and templating with event binding are the big missing pieces.
[0]: https://github.com/frameable/el