I don't want people preaching hooks as the greatest invention since fire talks anyways. Such code if spotted anywhere in a backend would be slammed for being horrendous and violating almost any intuition definition of maintainable code.

The svelte documentation is already great. This evengleism is good for commercial products. For technical open source, subjective evaluation is all that is needed. You evaluate whether it fits for your needs, you adopt or not.

Not everybody is walking into conferences and sticking swag on back of their notebook lids.

Rich Haris seems a humble great guy and he's doing good enough IMHO.