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I'd rather break my hands than use Svelte instead of React again. It comes with so many problems of itself. Summarized in a single sentence though it would be: It's more common than you'd like it to be, that your UI doesn't actually reflect the state of your application.

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I was considering investing in learning Svelte to avoid some of the React quirkiness, but this is not very promising. Can you share a bit more? Trading off a set of quirky annoying things for an equivalent or worse one would be suboptimal.

Svelte promises to be better than React but in the end it is not - and I hate React. React is a world on its own inside the frontend and Svelte did exactly the same, it is just different unnecessary complexity. And they even change everything every couple of years just like React.

I'm not sure what you're actually trying to say by that. Svelte has fine-grained opt-in reactivity. If you don't declare a variable with $state, it won't be reactive. That's by design and not a problem.

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