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Unless I'm misunderstanding you, Svelte can absolutely be published statically. If you leverage SvelteKit and the SSR it offers, then yes you need to deploy a server, but regular Svelte builds a statically deployable bundle just like React, Vue, or any other big UI lib/framework

I think they meant that svelte cannot be used without a build step.

The fact that builds dont need a second build is nice to know, even if useless.

I think you are incorrect here. Sveltekit comes with a number of adapters designed to ship either a SSR site or a static SPA.

Serving a static Svelte site is literally a one line change in a config file. I've got a good half dozen Svelte sites that live in s3.

It can quite easily with https://primo.so

If you are in a larger scale SEO project this does blazing fast static generation with Svelte: https://github.com/Elderjs/elderjs

Can attest to this. We used it to build https://findenergy.com which has over 15k pages and a TON of data.

Have you even used Svelte yourself?