to be honest i think the warts of svg aren't necessarily the worst for writing svg by hand, though it's not great.
but it makes writing design programs that output svg, annoying. the need for a `textarea` element is so great it's already in what was supposed to be the next generation of the spec; and pretty much all SVG output software has a way to input text boxes to treat them like that. But I suspect the complexity of dealing with svg is why alternatives to the Adobe Suite have only become more numerous recently; it's a complex beast.
to me, .ai and .svg are the equivalents to .doc and .docx, but we don't really have a great alternative a la Markdown that is significantly easier to output.
but it makes writing design programs that output svg, annoying. the need for a `textarea` element is so great it's already in what was supposed to be the next generation of the spec; and pretty much all SVG output software has a way to input text boxes to treat them like that. But I suspect the complexity of dealing with svg is why alternatives to the Adobe Suite have only become more numerous recently; it's a complex beast.
to me, .ai and .svg are the equivalents to .doc and .docx, but we don't really have a great alternative a la Markdown that is significantly easier to output.