To be fair I agree with most of that (except the web IDE), abstraction can do a lot for productivity, stability, and scalability but you certainly need the hard

To be fair I agree with most of that (except the web IDE), abstraction can do a lot for productivity, stability, and scalability but you certainly need the hard won experience when it all goes wrong. My point was more towards the JS side of things. JS just seems like a terrible choice of language for the tasks being performed where there are so many better alternatives, sure it makes writing a desktop app as easy as a web app but it just doesn't seem suited for the purpose. To me it's like writing complex systems in bash, sure it works but it's a pretty terrible choice.