This is true, but what's also true is using biome or eslint more than half of your complaints are gone. JS has always had bad parts, but today it's a lot easier to avoid them thanks to linters. And if you do stay in the good parts, it's my favorite language, for many reasons.

That said, I hate the constant stuffing of features (though not this one which is much needed), more stuff around JS like WebComponents, or CSS adding a ton of sugar.