[dylanjha]

I see. Particularly with CSS there's more of an enforced contract around how the element internals get exposed for styling. If the element hasn't exposed `parts` or slots it's hard to hack around it.

More broadly speaking I have found myself getting thrashed by the ever evolving "best practices" in the React ecosystem. First: write everything using class components, and then a couple years later everything should be written with hooks.

I think the benefit of web components (for certain things) is that the APIs and the standards move slowly. Something you write today isn't going to feel obsolete in only a couple years.