> People don't need components.

The idea that people don't want some sort of improved modularity, encapsulation, reusability, interop etc I think is wrong.

We can argue about whether components as proposed was the right solution, but are you arguing that templates, custom elements and modules have no utility?

Templating, for example, has been implemented in one form or another countless times - the idea that people don't need that seems odd.

Same goes for a js module system, same goes for hiding markup soup behind a custom element.

> The idea that people don't want some sort of improved modularity, encapsulation, reusability, interop etc I think is wrong.

And web components are an extremely shitty half-baked near-solution to any of those.