I think part of the reason is due to the programmer: People writing in AOT languages such as C, C++ and Rust usually care more about performance and knows more

I think part of the reason is due to the programmer: People writing in AOT languages such as C, C++ and Rust usually care more about performance and knows more about low level details that matter for performance. For example, they may try to optimize data layout to avoid cache misses, which JavaScript programmers generally won't (if they can). Also, compiling AOT can allow programmers to look at the optimization done by the compiler and determine if they need to further tweak the code to improve performance.