I haven’t found anything else that comes close and that’s why I haze myself over and over.

What has worked best for me is to disregard d3 attr. Attr made sense a long time ago but now if using a framework it is just so much easier to work with SVG elements directly instead of so many attr just for svg attributes.

You still end up finding a million ways to use the d3 library even if you never use attr at all.