It's neither true that Svelte has few users or that we can easily break things. Tons of sites are built with Svelte like Yahoo Finance and Apple Music. Svelte 5 was the only big change in syntax in the past five years and we made sure that there's a good migration tool, etc. to minimize the amount of hardship and upgrade might cause. As a result the majority of users have already upgraded to Svelte 5.
That being said, Svelte absolutely does continue to innovate. We'll be introducing a new async primitive, RPC mechanism, etc. in the near future: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1dATE70wlHc
I think svelte, especially now svelte 5, will “win” because it doesn’t fight with vanilla web dev it just beautifully supplements the short comings of rolling plain html, css, js.
This is coming from someone who is no way a front end dev, but svelte 5 in particular is just so easy to get started with and has the most sane approach to reactivity and syntax compared to the other frameworks I have tried, and it seems like it is in the best position to grow with the web as well.
I am surrounded by geniuses.
So I will stop trying to be like them. I can't.
I'll just keep my head down and write my little apps for fun.