It's a problem, but not a failure in design. The language is old. It started with features from that times and evolved to add more modern ones. Removing the old

It's a problem, but not a failure in design. The language is old. It started with features from that times and evolved to add more modern ones. Removing the old ones would break the world. Why do you thing you can still use == and declare vars without keywords in JS ? Even in the p3 transition, the community screamed to not remove them. Did you know we removed % for a few versiond ? We had to put it back because of all the complaints.