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Because the goal is two-part
1. Accept quality contributions from someone who understands what they're doing
2. Cultivate a relationship with the contributor who might potentially become a core-team member. Maybe even the next maintainer
The problem is Microsoft, not windows
That's the catch-22 problem. The underlying logic and software rarely care about the platform. They are usually just built Windows because that is the default OS on anything that is not a Mac.
That sounds like Windows Premium, not Lite. The annoying parts are the "features" that modern MS added intentionally
The biggest issue is the lack of tooling and the inability to manage a shared state. We actually ended up creating new libraries like Stencil & Lit.
Custom Elements missed the mark with the problem frameworks solve. We don't necessarily need custom HTML, we needed easy way to build and manage the whole data and visual flow locally while treating the backend response as a datasource.
Nowadays, I use web components for one-off, isolated components as a replacement for iframes, but rarely for anything complex.