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Any web components solution is probably going to be as big as React

Difference is in the eventing model and complexity of state management in React's hooks based model vs vanilla's. WC is aligned with how JS callbacks naturally work. React is the only framework that points the callback to the component function.

I wrote Solarite b/c I wanted a simple and fast web component solution without a compilation step.

https://eric-frost.github.io/solarite/

These days you can write in say React or SolidJs or JSX I guess to say, and have it transformed into HTML only with no JavaScript.

You get the best of both worlds, better language than XML/HTML and yah, you can deliver only HTML since the consumer typically doesn't need all that JavaScript, spa stuff. The Island Architecture.

Feels like a good in-between. Good DX for me, great UX and mostly HTML with some JavaScript sprinkled and fallback for users.

No idea why this idea is being downvoted, because it is totally correct, even more so in the LLM-coding era.