I partly agree with you but I still like JavaScript and the ecosystem around it. There's something to be said wrt. "worse is better" when it comes to JavaScrip

I partly agree with you but I still like JavaScript and the ecosystem around it. There's something to be said wrt. "worse is better" when it comes to JavaScript, as in "JavaScript is such a crappy language that it has managed to go unnoticed by architecture astronauts for most of the time". By which I mean, JavaScript front-end code of the jquery-era is extremely compact and to the point, avoiding metadata layers and other bloat. In judging JavaScript backend code, lack of experience of developers should be taken into account, who mostly came from front-end developer roles.