The Web isn't just for churning out products, it's being used as communication medium by billions every day. While I kindof like web components and will probab

The Web isn't just for churning out products, it's being used as communication medium by billions every day. While I kindof like web components and will probably embrace them, I think the uneasiness comes from WHATWG et. al. piling stuff in to browsers which are already monstrosities in terms of functionalities and LOC, especially when there's no new essential functionality gained. I had hoped WHATWG's work would result in a compact runtime description (as much as possible) of what a user agent is supposed to do, for web developers to build on. But all that's happened really is that Chrome/webkit (which was in an entrepreneurial position at the beginning, too) has gained dominance in the process, and there's less of a chance than there ever was that a new browser runtime could be developed from scratch. Rather than spec'ing out core functionalities (personally, I had hoped for a langsec profile of Javascript, and a formal semantics for CSS), WHATWG is significantly extending the scope of the spec with web components, and soon, WebAss.