When exporting SVG from Illustrator, individual tspan elements will be created for text blocks with font changes. The spans include coordinate attributes, preventing the natural flow of the text. This can create unwanted spacing between words. These attributes can be removed.

When building workflows, consider the pipeline pattern. This pattern is an array of step functions that leverage the same context object. The context is created with all the necessary keys, then passed to a step which may/not modify it, and then returns it. Repeat for each step.