After reading almost all comments, all of this make me think that your positions on the debate are based on psychological characters. Some people are idealists:

After reading almost all comments, all of this make me think that your positions on the debate are based on psychological characters. Some people are idealists: as Javascript is in some state, but could have been a lot better if history had been different, they CAN'T be happy, they won't. They need to find THE right tool before working with it (I'm an idealist). Then, you have other kind of people which are more adaptative: they tend to accept the situation "as is", and try to withdraw the maximum of benefits of the language. It's easier for them do deal with the issues because they accepted the situation initially. BTW, I think those people are more happy in their daily life. And last, the negationists: they refuse to accept the truth. Those people rely on wrong things (like trends) to evaluate the quality of the language. For them, if JS is used so much, it MUST be good, even if they're not sure why. They believe world auto-regulate itself with natural selection (like ultraliberal people). Plus, if they start to use it, they don't want to hear it's bad because it would question their choice, and by extension, their intelligence.