I wonder at what point Svelte would add this feature if, for example, a majority of their users ended up migrating to a fork that added this missing feature (like this one)?

Would they then concede and give in to popular demand in order to avoid a schism of the community?

Kind of like Rails swallowed / consolidated with Merb after they saw how great its ideas were?

I often wish for this. I don't understand why this hasn't been added.

Ugly workaround for now:

# Note, even though we don't need or use arguments passed to this selector, you *must* pass in an
# argument to prevent it from matching the :id selector and giving a "Unable to find id :parent (Capybara::ElementNotFound)" error.
# Example: el.first(:parent, 1)
# You may also need match: first if el matches multiple elements to avoid Capybara::Ambiguous
Capybara.add_selector(:parent) do
  xpath { ".//.." }
end