[pekk]

It's not a prejudicial "assumption" adopted ahead of experience that JavaScript is a terribly flawed language. It is something one sees by experience with JavaScript. Actually, the existence of all these transpilers makes no sense if JavaScript is already so wonderful as it is.

It seems excessively defensive to tell people who express a desire for better solutions to get out of the industry. If everybody accepts bad tools out of learned helplessness then there is no impetus to make things better.