Great writing, absolutely must read.
To add my dime, I wrote a web-component library for displaying images in a slider driven by a map I got from EXIFs, back in 2013. Despite I literally hate frontend development, that was a fun. Polymer has not won a battle against shitty approaches like React/Angular and I gave it up completely.
https://nolanlawson.com/2023/08/23/use-web-components-for-what-theyre-good-at/