It's not a pessimistic statement. I'm just saying they did. There is no guarantee that they will not do the same in the sveltekit project :) I recommend people make smart decisions and use it.
Do they still operate with very little backwards compatibility policy? They killed the sapper project and replaced it with sveltekit. Is sveltekit still alive?
The uncle who wrote the tool is probably a friend of the moderators here. He thinks that changing the texts in the element with a few xhr functions is a great success. I've seen very few guys as weird as this guy.