There was all sort of innovation in JavaScript going on at the time; still is. As you note, getting the innovation into a standard is the hard part, when some

There was all sort of innovation in JavaScript going on at the time; still is. As you note, getting the innovation into a standard is the hard part, when some of the parties to the standards process don't actually want the language to improve... But Google claiming this is a problem for JavaScript while it is one of those exact parties is just hypocritical.