Adding powerful new APIs to the web platform benefits more than just Angular, no? The set of evolving standards-based technologies behind "web components" (templates, Shadow DOM, HTMLImports, custom elements) can be utilized by any framework. More tools in our toolbox.

>Adding powerful new APIs to the web platform benefits more than just Angular, no?

Maybe, but that doesn't mean Google cares about enpowering the web platform in general.

If they did they wouldn't have removed other standard code (css regions), and they wouldn't have pushed for their, non-standard, Shadow DOM implementation.

That might be a bit of an exaggeration, although on the Angular side, we'd certainly like to have it pref'd on by default this summer (as unlikely as that may be).

Anyways, I really think people are sort of attributing malice to Glazkov's remarks where none really ever existed, WRT shipping the shadow DOM in its current state.