I sometimes think that a CS degree is part of the issue. The things that make JS unique aren't even mentioned in a lot of degree programs. Larry Wall famously

I sometimes think that a CS degree is part of the issue. The things that make JS unique aren't even mentioned in a lot of degree programs. Larry Wall famously said the three virtues of a programmer are impatience, laziness, and hubris. Not learning JS is at the exact intersection where people do all of these at the same time and meet with epic failure. People seem to think to themselves, "I learned Java and this looks like Java, so it must act like java" and so they run down the completely wrong path.