I started writing HTML, CSS, and JS in 2000. As someone who hasn't really worked in it day-to-day since 2010, JavaScript appears to be getting really weird.
Javascript libraries are to programming what Marxism was to economics in the 1970s: there's a lot of noise about it and a lot of innovation taking place in the field... But to make any sense of the "progress", you must have spent some serious time getting indoctrinated.
Javascript is around 20 years old. In Internet years, that's roughly 130.
I was trying to say that JS and good old communism had a similar trajectory. Initial scepticism, outright hatred from the establishment, then an enormous success with some core flaws; after it's mellowed down and reality has settled in, people are trying to fix it in increasingly theoretical ways that may not do anything to address the fundamental issues.