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.