I disagree, yes it feels less VanillaJS-ey but having unwanted reactivity made Svelte annoying at times and caused reactivity loops that just made code ugly to

I disagree, yes it feels less VanillaJS-ey but having unwanted reactivity made Svelte annoying at times and caused reactivity loops that just made code ugly to avoid. Anyway, if you don't want it like that you can continue to use the old system.