Not necessarily. While I may agree that a good candidate can be put off if the line of questioning was only about quirky parts, I noticed that the questions act

Not necessarily. While I may agree that a good candidate can be put off if the line of questioning was only about quirky parts, I noticed that the questions actually help judge a candidate's js proficiency. A large part of this interview was based on testing the candidate on essential parts of the language like contexts, prototypes, etc.