The sad thing is that we all chose to be content with a prototype built in 10 days rather than being patient and taking the time to develop a carefully designed

The sad thing is that we all chose to be content with a prototype built in 10 days rather than being patient and taking the time to develop a carefully designed solution. It's only now that it's something we are forced to use and put up with because the work required to develop and switch to something better (or even drop backwards compatibility to actually make javascript better) would be phenomenal.