Massive reduction in boilerplate. As someone who attempted to onboard onto both react and svelte for a couple days each, react continued to feel hyper unintuitive with a bunch of magic constructs. Svelte felt like I could guess what would work and it just did.
Caveat: since I went react -> svelte it's possible I was just warmed up to JS by that point
Caveat: since I went react -> svelte it's possible I was just warmed up to JS by that point