[spiffytech]

> during the past 10 years or so it has become fashionable to throw away everything the industry has learned in decades prior and start anew

This is a curious take to me. I've spent the last 10 years seeing people claim again and again that if JS just had common stuff built in like <other lang>, we wouldn't have all this library churn, node_modules bloat, and left-pad silliness. That the mistake was not including a standard library.

[notnullorvoid]

This is mostly a sentiment I see from people who used or heard of JS 10+ years ago and didn't bother to learn added JS language features and recent tooling.

Standard libs can be great, but they should really be reserved for baseline features, especially in a language like JS where all changes must be backward compatible. The standard JS has now is not at all what it was in the early 2010s, it's a very good set of baseline features.