I agree and I realize now I need to say this explicitly instead of picking on JS directly.
I thought long about this in the past, and I think JS itself is not a problem - it's just a poor language. The problem is JS + DOM API + CSS + bunch of other things that browsers provide. I feel there's too much creative control allowed for on the web. The language itself matters little; what does is that publishers can shove ridiculous amount of code with little effort, and that the user/publisher balance over control of rendering is so heavily tilted towards the latter.
I thought long about this in the past, and I think JS itself is not a problem - it's just a poor language. The problem is JS + DOM API + CSS + bunch of other things that browsers provide. I feel there's too much creative control allowed for on the web. The language itself matters little; what does is that publishers can shove ridiculous amount of code with little effort, and that the user/publisher balance over control of rendering is so heavily tilted towards the latter.