You haven’t described anything different from what the OP is saying: the main dev behind svelte now works for a company that wants you to use SSR for all your projects. That absolutely impacts feature development to favor sveltekit. The same thing is happening with react.

The same thing is happening with deno as well: most active dev is with deno deploy.

VC has infiltrated open source development and is driving how features are built. Not saying it’s necessarily bad but it does change the incentive structure.