I'd consider myself part of the community. I advocated for Svelte and lead two projects in my company, I spoke about Svelte at meet-ups and I did some mentoring around svelte and data visualisation.

And I agree with you. Rich has strong opinions and he likes to stir some discussion. And that's fine, he always responds with nuance and mutual respect. Problem is when community parrots his one liners. If I had a nickel for everytime I got yelled with "vdom is pure overhead!" or "jsx is an abomination, my templates are pure html".

In the end I'm not even sure if it is something specific about Svelte, or just any non-react solution has to bash React loudly.