Hiring Hyvä developers — different skill set vs Luma?

Yes, and mostly in your favour. The required skills:

• Tailwind CSS: mainstream front-end skill, huge talent pool, easy to hire
• Alpine.js: small, easy to learn — most React/Vue devs pick it up in a weekend
• Magewire (server-side reactivity): Hyvä-specific, but well-documented. 1 – 2 weeks to ramp
• Magento backend (PHP, GraphQL, modules, plugins): identical to Luma — same talent pool

Compare to Luma which needed:

• jQuery (still findable, but devs hate it now)
• RequireJS (legacy, fewer experts every year)
• KnockoutJS (effectively dead — almost nobody under 30 has used it)
• UI Components XML (Magento-specific arcana)

Hiring for Hyvä is genuinely easier than Luma in 2026, and the dev quality is higher because the talent pool overlaps with mainstream web dev.