Same about the shadowDOM. The only criticism I have about Lit is that the creators think shadowDOM is amazing and people not liking it are using it wrong. Lit lacks a good direction and someone with vision leading it but it became the technical pet project of a few.

The ability to locally scope styles is a great feature of shadow DOM. For that alone I can see why it's being pushed.

It's trivially easy to create Lit components without shadow DOM so I don't really care and use both.