My takeaway is that web components are purposefully low-level (as specs out of the W3 usually are). It doesn't have a databinding spec because it's not supposed

My takeaway is that web components are purposefully low-level (as specs out of the W3 usually are). It doesn't have a databinding spec because it's not supposed to. That's why libraries like Polymer emerged, to make the features more streamlined to use. The apples-oranges comparison from the article is similar to comparing jQuery to vanilla DOM.