I think the basic issue is that we're neither implementing new widespread patterns in the browser (new widgets, elements, etc.) nor really making it so we provi

I think the basic issue is that we're neither implementing new widespread patterns in the browser (new widgets, elements, etc.) nor really making it so we provide lower-level building blocks for interaction. Where we did add elements (like the calendar for example) they're so broadly specified that the browsers disagree on them so much you'll find yourself hard-pressed to actually use them. I think type=email is the only "new" element that is uncontroversially useful. You mostly have the "free" decades-old elements, and when you step a toe beyond them you're incurring a huge amount of work to try to emulate what the browser was giving you, or probably a library or framework to do it. On the very simplest end, I'm still baffled that there's no combobox element. `datalist` is kind of a mess and isn't quite the same.