> I find it so much easier to understand. I don't have to useState/useEffect/whatever, I just assign variables and the component re-renders the relevant parts whenever I assign a new value.

What's frustrating for me is that I'm so used to thinking in hooks that when I first gave Svelte a try, it didn't click. And I knew that was wrong, lol. The release of Svelte 4 is good timing, I might have a use-case at work for a small project to try it out, so I'm going to give it another shot.