JS has bad parts. That's why there is a popular book called Javascript the Good Parts. So sure old-school JS could be gnarly, but as the book says, you just use

JS has bad parts. That's why there is a popular book called Javascript the Good Parts. So sure old-school JS could be gnarly, but as the book says, you just use a linter and ignore the bad parts, and what you're left with is a very straight forward, clean and practical language. And now with Typescript on top too, we got the wonders of static typing also. What's not to like?