Here's more clarity on what I was attempting to say: I had to understand the internal working of the reactive statements inorder to use it the right way and it took me a building a couple smaller projects to completion to get there. I believe this was because at the time I built them, I did not have enough references and projects where similar problems were tackled.

After I understood how it worked, which was about 3 to 6 months into using Svelte v3, I found it rather simple and intuitive. I've been working with Svelte for nearly 5 years overall. It did not take me 5 years to find it intuitive.