Yeah, its definitely been forced, you can see it in the team's faces (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N-ldg1IPn4&t=1766s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N-ldg

Yeah, its definitely been forced, you can see it in the team's faces (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N-ldg1IPn4&t=1766s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N-ldg1IPn4&t=1766s). Its possible that the HTML Modules spec will hit browsers in the next year or so (the fact that the ES Modules spec does nothing when the resource mimetype isn't JS means it'll be very easy to extend), in which case Polymer 3.0 will have just been a crash course in tagged template literals.