[mbo]

> It took me hours of Googling and trying out different options to come up with this awful piece of code that worked to load the contents of a file and give them to my page [CODE]

Do I have Stockholm syndrome or is the code here completely fine?

[Petersipoi]

This whole piece kind of feels like the author just doesn't understand Svelte, so they threw it out and used something they do understand.

Yes, it probably is a good idea to use technologies you understand. But you not understanding Svelte isn't a Svelte problem.