There's so much of it out there that you don't really have to program in it as much as copy-paste in it. Your expectations probably would have been met or exceeded if people still had to actually write things in it.
Misused? How so? Are you referring to those that give advice with "just import lodash and use ___" or "you can do this easily in jQuery like _____"?
I find that a lot of the JS answers are pretty good, and there are many 2-3+ year old answers that are edited with ES6 updates to the answer, which is pretty amazing/nice.