Something AI has done for Video.js is allow us to set our sights higher, with the about the same size team. Specifically aiming for idiomatic components and patterns for each popular JS framework (React, Svelte, Vue, React Native), not just web component wrappers (though I still love web components on their own).

(We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47514723 so it wouldn't go down with that ship)

Absolutely the case for me. Small fun projects that would take a few hours to round off a feature can now be done in an hour. Why wouldn't i finish it off?