Yeah, this matches my experience moving from React (5+ yrs) to Svelte (2 shipped 3 month projects over the last couple of years at this point). Svelte clearly

Yeah, this matches my experience moving from React (5+ yrs) to Svelte (2 shipped 3 month projects over the last couple of years at this point). Svelte clearly lacks the massive community support of React but I've found it easier to get by on my understanding of JS and the DOM when I get stuck. I've heard lots of gripeing from other React devs about the $ syntax and a few other things around lack of JSX but that feels like really small change when compared to the flexibility Svelte allows around things like transitions (no more hooks!).