Yeah, that's disappointing. lit-html is only meant for templating, not components, and while you can kind of shoehorn components into directives. that's not ide

Yeah, that's disappointing. lit-html is only meant for templating, not components, and while you can kind of shoehorn components into directives. that's not ideal either. lit-html is entirely intended to be used with web components, which is can only create HTML and has no special support or syntax for components. As you note, LitElement is what you should use if you like lit-html and want components. We'll be making this more clear soon by bringing lit-html and LitElement closer together in documentation.