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I am very angry with the constant radical changes in Polymer. My team has written applications in Polymer 1 now we are still rewriting to Polymer 2, soon we need to rewrite to Polymer 3 (it should be easier) but is afraid that the scale (400+ components) can cause some problems. Now you can see that Polymer 3 is no longer alive and will be replaced by LitElement with a completely new templates system, which is practically unreadable in Polymer 3. Polymer will no longer be supported and you have left the big companies with nothing, because LitElement seems to be a completely new project, which is to replace Polymer and looks like an experiment, it ridiculous.

I think the way the team sees it is that lit-element is the future, but we want to figure out how to migrate there. Polymer 3 is a good way of going about it because it lets you easily migrate your Polymer 2 elements—especially helpful if they're complex—while also being able to use lit elements on the same page. That's actually pretty cool, IMO. In the past, if you wanted to upgrade frameworks, you usually needed to throw everything away and do a rewrite. In this system, you can do things at your own pace.