I don't think this is a problem unique to JavaScript, however. We see the same sort of thing around technologies. Right now it's ML and Blockchain, earlier it was Cloud and IOT. The industry in general appears to be mostly built on inventing problems that can be solved by the tech, framework, etc. rather than leveraging technology to solve an existing problem.
This may be part of why you're having a hard time finding the problems JavaScript may solve for you. Personally, I find it much easier to follow the "Just In Time Learning" model https://blog.codinghorror.com/keeping-up-and-just-in-time-le.... Find out what parts you need in order to solve your problems, learn how they work, and leave the rest until you need it.
It has a huge community, of course there will be new things created every week.
But, if it as bad you will not even hear about it, if you hear it is probably good or better on some aspects compared to others, who doesn't want that? do everyone wanted to be stuck with MooTools or JQuery forever?
Of course we do want new tooling - ES6 and Angular in particular have worked well for me. Where I have some trouble is the tendency of some organizations to adopt these frameworks without considering whether the framework is actually solving a problem the have or expect to have in the near future. YAGNI is very tricky to get right.
Then why do you use it?
On the other hand, I've never written anything in Javascript. Maybe I'd have a lower opinion of it if my stack made heavy use of it.
It solves the problem of forcing a medium that was originally intended for documents and presenting information(the www) to support rich, interactive applications.
The whole html/css/js thing is a giant, ugly kludge, but it's what we're stuck with.
As a small example I would like to have a built-in dropdown/select that I can css it to my needs then to create my own using nested divs or use one made by others that may have corner cases or is not efficient.
I would also like some standard ways to show a modal, basically more standard APIs to be added to address the most needed things.
I am now rewriting a startup's entire platform from PHP to js for no good reason. They claim they can't find any decent PHP developers and that js developers are easier to come by, yet here I am a PHP developer that has never wrote js outside the browser doing their js work?? Makes no sense.
Personally I'd love to completely ditch JavaScript. I'm eagerly following the progress of WebAssembly. I'm certain in 5 to 10 years the majority of front end dev will not be done in JavaScript.
I am maintaining an Anglaur app just now. What a waste of effort. Everything would have been so much simpler if it was kept server side. Instead we have a ton of duplicated logic.
Which is another way of saying, don't talk to me about being tired of javascript...
