Comment by gentleman11

JavaScript used to be a little elegant in its simplicity. JavaScript now is getting complicated. Syntactic sugar, I think, is only there to build a moat around a tech to justify a salary premium and reduce the number of newcomers. You end up with a dozen arcane ways to do the same thing, and you have to be fluent with all of them in order to read your teammates code. It makes the language harder to use, while adding no new functionality