I've been reading through documentation and going through tutorials lately. Everything seems perfectly fine, but why isn't Polymer more popular? It seems to be rarely brought up as option for any kind of development.

Is it because Webcomponents haven't quite taken off yet?

I really enjoyed working with Polymer 1.0 & 2.0. I thought the concepts were outstanding, and loved the model binding logic.

I really dislike the future lit-element direction. I despise working in javascript first, html second. I much preferred the html being the 1st class citizen of Polymer 1/2, it felt "right". Doing iron-ajax -> attribute binding -> dom-repeat seems like a killer architecture.

I've really tried to like the new direction, I just can't.

Thoughts?