Svelte/Solid JS and reactivity are great; Reactivity definitely is a better philosophy than Virtual DOM diffing.
However, I'd like to add one more reason to the "arguments adopting svelte" and that is native development.
Svelte Native doesn't even come close to touching React Native in maturity, and I'm willing to bet it never will.
For a startup to consider a frontend technology, React is easily the better choice in terms of capital because there is no way you're going to build a production ready native app in Svelte Native.
If you were to build your web client in Svelte, then you would have to spend capital on another team to build Native (God forbid in React Native), in which you would split teams on ios and android.
Or you could you use just one team for React + RN altogether and save you possibly millions in capital.
Also I'd like to mention that the NYT article that was linked to showcase Svelete actually showcases more of D3 instead.
Mike Bostock also used to work for NYT and NYT absolutely loves using D3.
However, I'd like to add one more reason to the "arguments adopting svelte" and that is native development.
Svelte Native doesn't even come close to touching React Native in maturity, and I'm willing to bet it never will.
For a startup to consider a frontend technology, React is easily the better choice in terms of capital because there is no way you're going to build a production ready native app in Svelte Native.
If you were to build your web client in Svelte, then you would have to spend capital on another team to build Native (God forbid in React Native), in which you would split teams on ios and android.
Or you could you use just one team for React + RN altogether and save you possibly millions in capital.
Also I'd like to mention that the NYT article that was linked to showcase Svelete actually showcases more of D3 instead.
Mike Bostock also used to work for NYT and NYT absolutely loves using D3.