YES! I liked React components too but wanted something simpler so on my current project I've been using native browser Web Components/Custom Elements without any framework -- in fact, my project has zero dependencies on the client-side. It does need a few globally installed modules (typescript, webpack/webpack-cli, nodemon).

Requiring that javascript is enabled in the browser isn't a factor because my project relies on WebRTC, which requires javascript anyway. Its main value prop wouldn't exist with javascript disabled, so I'm just going to ignore that criticism.

To work across Chrome/Firefox/Safari, I avoided templates/slots by attaching the `ShadowRoot` and setting its `.innerHTML` to the result of a function that returns the html template literal string (where the function can fill variables in that string). I haven't tested this on Edge, but it works fine natively on the other browsers without any polyfills.

I love using Typescript without any client-side framework, but you might have different constraints than I do. Particularly when it comes to job search -- it seems that almost any front-end webdev position requires React/Angular/etc so you might find that it's a career-limiting move to go straight to plain Web Components as I did. I don't care because my main background is in mobile not web.