[crearo]

I felt the exact same thing when I started webdev after 3 years of app dev and a little bit of REST APIs (and backend) using python flask. For me JS, and all frameworks built using JS felt like attempts at revival of something that should have long died. Every new framework gives JS lovers (honestly no offence) a little bit of hope and adds a year or two to its survival. For a long time, I felt JS was a hack on top of a series of hacks!

I've just come to accept it now. The reason you're disliking it is probably because of its extreme hit and trial nature - unlike appdev which is more fluid and consistent.