You think that in 14 years many critiques from many authors didn't appear on the front page? It's not a big deal to reach the front page of HN.

No worries, web components themselves have a very nice critique in the form of their own community report https://w3c.github.io/webcomponents-cg/2022.html listing all the issues that many people had been taking about for literal years before this report.

There have been many that have hit the front page over the years. If you're not aware of a technology's shortcomings then you're a bad proponent of said technology. They're also almost the antithesis of what the HTMX crowd also preaches as "the one true way" and meanwhile, Wordpressers will continue developing the majority of the world's websites blissfully unaware that either technology even exists.

https://dev.to/ryansolid/web-components-are-not-the-future-4...

https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...

https://daverupert.com/2023/07/why-not-webcomponents/

https://paularmstrong.dev/blog/2023/03/11/why-we-do-not-writ...

https://nolanlawson.com/2024/09/28/web-components-are-okay/

https://www.zachleat.com/web/good-bad-web-components/

https://mayank.co/blog/web-components-considered-harmful/

https://adamsilver.io/blog/the-problem-with-web-components/

https://web-highlights.com/blog/are-web-components-dead/

along with some criticisms from very knowledgeable people:

https://x.com/youyuxi/status/1839833110164504691 (author of Vue) https://x.com/Rich_Harris/status/1839785839036887361 (author of Svelte)

Web Components solve a few problems and introduce a few others, use them when they make sense for your needs.