Thanks! I wouldn't say Stencil's option is low. It's being used in some pretty major apps today, like Apple Music, Amazon music, and powering the next version of AWS Amplify components. Not to mention powering every Ionic Framework component which is upwards of 15% of the app stores (not all use latest w/ WCs however). One downside to that is npm stats won't show dependency network effects with stencil because it is compiled out for component collections like framework.

There are basic things StencilJS are missing, like source maps. Development has seemed to slow down on it as well.

There's also no types for web components. So, you can't statically analyze your code and know you are indeed passing in the correct property types.

There are wrappers for Stencil components for React/Angular/Vue, so you can ensure typings, but it goes to show the developer experience is far superior at the framework level.

Curious: how does Stencil compare to Lit Element?

I wouldn't consider Stencil simple. lit-html and lit element are simple, stencil is not.

'cuz Facebook spent a bazillion dollars to push the developer community towards React? They are really good at––how should I say this––controlling the 'community direction and sentiments'. Even countries for that matter.