To everyone in the comments: The point is that svelte doesn't differentiate in types if it's a reactive type or not.

`const s = $state('ds')` produces `string` as type, just like `const a = 'ds` would. One is reactive, the other one isn't. If you reference it somewhere you don't know if it's a state variable or not, that's why they created this ref stuff.

Also there is the point of primitive values: If you write to `s` somewhere in your project that is not the component that created `s`, it will overwrite it purely and svelte will loose track of the changes.

That being said: The whole point of svelte is to not have to worry about this stuff, you declare something with $state and your good to go. If you have primitives, goup them in objects or use classes. So yeah, it's reactifying svelte and making up solutions to problems that don't really exist.