[foobarbecue]

I think the complaints attenuated in the last in the last 10-15 years because javascript itself became a much better language. Things really started to change with ES5. The introduction of let / const, modules, async, .?, template strings, etc. transformed it from an ugly kludge to a really capable language.

Of course, if you use old syntax you still deal with weird scoping and casting, but you don't have to any more.

Also, I think the framework churn has slowed considerably in the last 5 years.

[dsego]

Everybody sort of settled on React and Node, or at least on the reactive/declarative component paradigm. React was introduced over 10 years ago now, it's a dinosaur.