I don't think anyone genuinely finds this impressive. People simply up-vote because it's written in JavaScript and allows for some immediate clicking gratificat

I don't think anyone genuinely finds this impressive. People simply up-vote because it's written in JavaScript and allows for some immediate clicking gratification. Which, I agree, is sad. (And will be vehemently denied.) I wouldn't really mind if this phenomenon didn't drain attention and resources from other technologies.