I'd say you could see this coming as soon as it emerged. People didn't want to learn yucky JavaScript syntax, then they learned it anyway because that's always

I'd say you could see this coming as soon as it emerged. People didn't want to learn yucky JavaScript syntax, then they learned it anyway because that's always how this happens, and now here we are. Whole technologies have been invented simply so that devs can avoid learning or touching JS. Once upon a time, I was one of them.