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So that's why I see web components as something that enables people writing markup more than it empowers people writing giant javascript applications. This is so that people can add <twitter-tweet href="twitter.com/name">My Cool Tweet</twitter-tweet> tags to their wordpress blogs, and so that the people making that <twitter-tweet> tag can be confident that it will render and not look horrible on that person's blog. It's so that the complex, app-ish things can be abstracted away and added to documents with a declarative and logic-less syntax.

Sure, and to the extent that Web Components do that, they are a good thing. Where I think we've gone a bit wonky is more on the "giant javascript applications" where we're using a great document delivery platform as a half-baked application runtime.