I've heard a hypothesis saying that JS endures because it's bad, otherwise it would've been subsumed by other languages and we never would've been fed up with i

I've heard a hypothesis saying that JS endures because it's bad, otherwise it would've been subsumed by other languages and we never would've been fed up with it to create Webassembly, which is more optimized for its use case than what the other languages we might've used instead of JS. In other words, feeling the pain of JS over 20 years led to the creation of WASM that might not have been as needed had we had good languages on the web present. https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death-of-javascript https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death... https://youtube.com/watch?v=pBYqen3B2gc https://youtube.com/watch?v=pBYqen3B2gc