I thought it was weird and couldn't see the reasoning, but personally I just persisted with using it and in the end I've found the new structure perfectly worka

I thought it was weird and couldn't see the reasoning, but personally I just persisted with using it and in the end I've found the new structure perfectly workable and perhaps even marginally prefer it. So yeh, it might seem stupid but maybe just try and use it more to find out if it's really that big of a problem for you. The rest of the gains I've had from SvelteKit were too good to pass up, it's overall just a superb dev experience.