The answer is pretty simple: whatever 'fix' you come up with will only last until somebody tries doing yet something else that you hadn't anticipated. At that p

The answer is pretty simple: whatever 'fix' you come up with will only last until somebody tries doing yet something else that you hadn't anticipated. At that point, you'll be back to square one. This is the magic of human ingenuity. It has nothing to do with standards and best practices. That said, Javascript (as a standard) is obviously plenty good enough to let us coerce it in to doing all of these thing (like jQuery, Coffee-script, node.js and so on), that I'd say the people who have steered Javascrip over the years have done a pretty good job, all considered.