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>I see this view a lot - what I rarely ever see is a concrete discussion about what exactly is wrong with the "foundation" of javascript.

The things that were added mostly were to fix problems of JS:

arrow functions => because of "this" shenanigans

template literals => I'd say a basic part of a language

async/await => Promise/future hell

destructuring, classes, enhanced object literals => These are all syntactic sugar/nice to haves. Nothing really was broken here.

native modules => Another time I'd say that it's a basic part of a language