I was tempted by Svelte for a while, but in the end Preact remained the best fit for our needs because the output filesize grows slower with Preact than Svelte.
I like keeping things small because it delays having to add complexity (and simple is easier to maintain, especially when you have better things to do) and saves on bandwidth.
Of course I'll keep evaluating new versions as they come (given nothing is sacred in my pipelines), so that might change in the future.
The bigger the virtual dom the larger the performance gap is supposed to be. But, true, would like to see some benchmarks from the real world, i.e rewrites and such.
Perhaps not a great comparison, but here are the Svelte and Vue HackerNews feeds. Not a great deal of difference, but perhaps it's too simple for performance to really matter.
I like keeping things small because it delays having to add complexity (and simple is easier to maintain, especially when you have better things to do) and saves on bandwidth.
Of course I'll keep evaluating new versions as they come (given nothing is sacred in my pipelines), so that might change in the future.