> Is it that Lit gives you a different way of authoring web components than the raw APIs?

than the raw APIs, than Polymer, than Stencil, than...

> Is it that from the outside the components aren't "Lit", but consumed as standard web components? Again, yes, that's entirely the point.

No. That is literally not the point. Which is extremely obvious from what I wrote in my original comment: "lit is both newer than React, and started as a fully backwards incompatible alternative to Polymer"

Again, at this point I literally couldn't care less for your obstinate willful avoidance of authoring, and of your pretending that only the output matters. (And other lies like "lit is native/just html" etc.)