Unless I'm misunderstanding something, I believe this actually is - or at least touches upon - several questions in disguise: .) Do we want to allow decoration of elements that are already in the DOM tree? - which is for all intents and purposes a corollary of: .) Do we allow calling of "new ShadowRoot" outside of an element constructor? If no, then we don't have a problem with "dead elements", because the author can only declare new elements (and use encapsulation), but not meddle with existing ones. FWIW, I don't think there is any real use-case for calling "new ShadowRoot" within the constructor twice. However, in this case we have to answer how encapsulation can address the stated use cases for decoration. This probably means answering: .) How is attribute forwarding handled from the host element to a nested (form) element? .) How can components participate in forms (and other fun)? ... or just leave decoration out for the time being (which I think is quite reasonable). OTOH, if the answer to the decorators question is "yes", then the above mentioned issues with multiple shadow roots arise.
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