Inkscape mangles hand-crafted SVGs — automated SVG-preserving fixer

Inkscape mangles hand-crafted SVGs — automated SVG-preserving fixer targets a $40.0B = 10M design & dev teams x $4K avg annual spend on design/dev tooling and collaboration suites total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 12% CAGR (developer tooling & design-system tools).

Key trends driving demand: Design systems adoption -- organizations standardize SVG usage, raising demand for tooling that preserves canonical source.; Frontend performance focus -- emphasis on tiny, semantically-correct assets creates need for intelligent optimization.; Shift-left tooling -- teams increasingly fix issues in CI/IDE; developers expect linters and automated PR fixes.; AI-for-code advances -- models now can reason about AST/markup and apply semantics-preserving edits..