You and I are coming at this from different directions, but have reached the same conclusions.

I wrote my first JavaScript function back in 1999 and have endured all sorts of nonsense since then. On the other hand I've only begun using Go this year.

My bias in languages stems from a long career developing in Fortran, Cobol, C, Visual Basic, C++, JavaScript, PHP, Java, and Go (in that order). Over time, the things that mattered the most were: expressiveness, tooling, backward compatibility as the language grows, and the standard library.

Sadly JavaScript has no standard library, and the free-for-all of frameworks, compatibility layers, modules, transpilers, and packagers is the result.

Sticking with vanilla JavaScript was my recipe for staying sane. I survived only by writing my own solutions, piece by piece as the need arose, and resisting the lure of shiny new things.