Hey can you explain how they improved consistency because I just don't understand how the new changes help. I may just not understand what they did at a fundamental level.
React called them components, and it's always felt like a kludge to create some thing that WAS a DOM element (boiling down to React.DOM), and then set it's "tagname" as an after-thought.
Things like prop are tied directly to the DOM Element, further suggesting that the "thing" the component was, was actually a DOM Element.
I guess it's really subjective, but I think it'll be clearer to explain to people now:
"React manages creation and rendering of dynamic/intelligent (DOM) Elements"
(bonus points for no overlap with the Web Components terminology)
But then again a lot of this is just my opinion, consistency