Js is currently more visible than other platforms, also the sheer size of the community takes a role. Idiots are everywhere. The current trend and curse of DRY

Js is currently more visible than other platforms, also the sheer size of the community takes a role. Idiots are everywhere. The current trend and curse of DRY and NIH is to solve stuff by adding dependencies and gluing them together. Rookies expect that some software solved the problem at hand without thinking about it. Even worse is that they even apply this to rather simple things. The problem of OP - countig items inefficiently - is absurdly common. IMHO this is the heart of the problem, the new generation is highly uneducated how to handle data.