I think the same thing. In theory I would love to use the platform-native approach instead of a framework. In practice it’s an exercise in frustration.

About once a year I give web components another shot and rediscover all the things I hate about them. They are not designed for what web developers consider components and they are full of footguns and bizarre limitations.

Sometimes you will hear this subtly acknowledged as “web components excel at leaf nodes”. What this means in practice is that you shouldn’t use them for things that have contents. They are fine for their original use case, form elements where you don’t want page styles to affect things like the drop-down arrow in the control. But they are a massive disappointment for the typical use case.