Fair to a degree, I guess. Still, in the years during which I didn't work with JS, I picked like 5 other languages and even though they weren't exactly beginner-friendly I still managed rather quickly.
JS though, always has been the exception. I understand what transpiling and bundling and minifying etc. are. But the tooling is somehow... don't know, hard to work with. And sometimes you get errors even in newly generated projects.
It's indeed hard to articulate the problems but that’s because I've only done isolated toe-dipping for a while now, not because I don’t understand something. JS could still use shortcuts during development, a la the Parcel tool, and turn that into an universal approach in all of its ecosystem.
