It's because JS is, at it's core, a shit language. All of this flailing around and creating a new framework every week is like the poor sods trying to struggle

It's because JS is, at it's core, a shit language. All of this flailing around and creating a new framework every week is like the poor sods trying to struggle through the mud at Passchendaele. The more you fight it, the deeper it gets. Better languages have sensible defaults, and a decent standard library built in. If we could run Python or Java natively in the browser, nobody would bother with all of this illogical complexity that has arisen to try to make writing Javascript moderately tolerable.