The thing I like about Svelte the most is that it's closer to raw HTML. Rather than having to keep up with all the React developments if you're not using it all the time.
Is anyone hand-writing code anymore though in 2026? I don't think many people these days have to worry about "keeping up with all the React developments", because Claude/Codex handles all that now.
There's not really any way to make a website look exactly how you want it to look without manually fiddling with its HTML and CSS. I took the agent pill as soon as I could and never looked back, but it's truly much more work to ask the model to make small changes in natural language, observe, and iterate when you can just open the developer console and do it yourself. That said, I modify the site by hand only enough to get it into a state where I can dump it on an agent to finish up.
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