I don't know any javascript, but is it really that bad of a language that you need new libraries every day and workarounds so that you don't have to write it?
The language itself isn't great, but the tooling it (appears to) necessitate and the fact that the browser isn't a great environment for what many people want to do combine to turn many people off.
a lot of people in the last 15 or so years felt strongly that writing javascript was not "real programming", and this facilitated the birth of a thousand solutions to avoid writing it
