[CuriousRose]

I'm not a developer by trade, and have gone from 0 full-stack knowledge to building a MVP for my startup in 18 months using Svelte 4 and SvelteKit. Looking at the JS/TS ecosystem from the outside, it was a total nightmare and Svelte 4 was the only framework that seemed to make logical and aesthetic sense to me.

Currently porting to Svelte 5 and it is less elegant in my opinion, but perhaps the problems it tries to solve are for more sophisticated developers and I don't really come across them or have knowledge of them. I would prefer to stay on 4, but I will take Rich's word for it that it will be better long term.

Admittedly complicated components with lots of reactivity can be confusing to follow data changes with lots of $: lines so I have tried to minimise that from the beginning. The Svelte 5 code looks cleaner to follow for onboarding devs that aren't familiar with our codebase yet.