Was my first gut reaction as well. Especially when i saw `$state(0)`. But watch the introduction video. It isn't at all like the functional reactivity that ent

Was my first gut reaction as well. Especially when i saw `$state(0)`. But watch the introduction video. It isn't at all like the functional reactivity that entered other frameworks. It's still the svelte way. Read and assign is plain javascript. Only the initialization syntax changed. They even promise backwards compatibility, so you don't have to migrate or migrate file by file if you want to. Which is also not how other frameworks handled this in the past.