Re: [w3c/webcomponents] The is="" attribute is confusing? Maybe we should encourage only ES6 class-based extension. (#509)

> why would anyone need to further explicitly say extends: "button" is out of my understanding.

That's exactly how all developers that understand the importance [DRY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_repeat_yourself) code will react when they first see it.

> However, like I've said before, the whole Web platform is full of shenanigans, yet we are here today in all its glorious success!

Because we keep iterating on it to make it easier to work with (Less is more) and more performant.

> Yet another use case for is 

Why not just make a `<inline-write>process.version.node</inline-write>` element that extends an `HTMLSpanElement` (if needed) resulting in `<span>process.version.node evaluated</span>`?

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