I'm guessing it's the inner-platform effect in action, but I could have sworn that there's a more detailed name for it in reference to Javascript in particular

I'm guessing it's the inner-platform effect in action, but I could have sworn that there's a more detailed name for it in reference to Javascript in particular -- something about systems always existing on the edge of acceptability or of legibility, or thereabouts. I think this was on Ward's Wiki, but I can't find it...