I share your disappointment and I'd like to invite you to DFlex (https://github.com/jalal246/dflex). It's not perfect and in the development process but I think it's a real alternative to native-like API focused on performance and easy implementation. It's just a pure js. So every fix should enhance all framework implementations. Decoupled with a separate package to prevent a bloated bundle. Work with mouse event, so nothing new to learn. And most importantly it's just a utility. You can use what you want. Finally, it doesn't sort, move,s or whatsoever. Node positions are stored separately. Each movement calculates the current position and triggers any effect that movement caused. So It may cause "dragging only with zero effect" Or "Switch with another element". It has also container/children architecture. So you can drag a child, or parent..etc

Edit: I have implementation for React and Vue but not for Svelet. So if anyone is interested let me know.

And congrats to Isaac for this nice work dedicated to Svelte community.