Some devs prefer Svelte’s minimal approach that defers problems to userland, encouraging more innovation, choice, and fragmentation, and other devs prefer a more fully integrated toolkit with a well-supported happy path.

Svelte forces you do to do all kinds of things in a very specific way (as does every other framework/library), those constraints generally make for a better experience.

While react hooks were one of the catalysts for v3 we don't agree with with the APIs or the model and won't be emulating it.

If you want this control then wrap them in a DOM node that the parent controls. If you want to pass in values then use props and if you want to pass in values from higher up the tree, the new style RFC may be able to help.

Hopefully, this clarifies our position on using CSS to solve this problem

What we don't want to happen is to bless an approach that inverts this control, allowing an arbitrary parent to impact the inner-workings of a component.