I appreciate someone working on a sizable codebase to put in their opinion. Too often it's just feedback on their experience with a Hello World analog and it's easy to get hyperbolic opinions off of that.
Yes, but not everybody builds the next social network or complex commercial app with 50 pages and 150 forms.
It used to be that svelte was the perfect choice to build simple spa fronts to backend services, there already was react for complex applications. Now we have 2 additional reacts with svelte and vue and no mainstream simple framework for smaller stuff.
Why does everybody feel they need to build eventually the same thing, but slightly different?
People are willing to pay for nice things. Especially if it takes longer to create it yourself.
A theme is more than a list of colors. Monokai Pro contains custom designed icons and color filters too, and some code logic to sync it all up. It needs continued updates, as editors keep evolving with new UX/UI elements.