I've spend a decade in c and c++, another in Java. I've now moved to Javascript and I love everything about it. Well not everything, I don't really like the whole NPM and millions of dependencies. I also don't like react and angular. But JS is so big, there's enough other stuff I do like.
You see, you don't have to like everything about it to enjoy working with it. I pick the stuff I care about and put my positive energy towards it, instead of my negative energy towards the other. You should try it. You're free to make whatever tools you use right now as easy to use and as quick to learn. Maybe if you try hard enough, us Javascripters might come join your side.
People just hate all old and we'll used languages. You hear javascript, java, and c++ getting hated on all the time. I feel like as languages age people just find all the stuff they hate about it. That being said javascript was a uniquely poorly designed language that only gained popularity by people being forced to use it. At least the modern versions of it seem to be have fixed many problems.
You see, you don't have to like everything about it to enjoy working with it. I pick the stuff I care about and put my positive energy towards it, instead of my negative energy towards the other. You should try it. You're free to make whatever tools you use right now as easy to use and as quick to learn. Maybe if you try hard enough, us Javascripters might come join your side.