The “Developer Experience” Bait-And-Switch
The argument of "JavaScript is bad" or even "JavaScript is necessary but only in small amounts" is getting pretty tired.  I don't think anybody could possibly hope to argue that all client-side code is bad, but that's all web+JavaScript is: an easy deployment platform, for both content creator and consumer, for client-side code. Where else could you deploy and within seconds your customers have your new code?<p>If you're worried about how easy it's becoming to track people in the browser, or to track people in the Internet ecosystem in general, that's an entirely different conversation. JavaScript has absolutely nothing to do with the security and privacy status of the web aside from what it is allowed to do per web standards.<p>Stop blaming a language or the ability to write anything Turing complete when, clearly, it's just a tool and the same problems exist in every single code distribution arena.