Absolutely. I hate JS as much as the next person, but I hated the for lack of a better word, fuckedupedness, of dozens of languages and yet I still programmed i

Absolutely. I hate JS as much as the next person, but I hated the for lack of a better word, fuckedupedness, of dozens of languages and yet I still programmed in them. coughPerlcough Elegance is never the primary concern of code. Readability is. And they are not the same thing. Even Perl can be made readable.