I don't think this is true at all. I think over time it becomes very easy to apologize for the environment we're forced to use, because there is no comparison, we only have JS for the web.

In any decent project, you're going to have hundreds of 3rd party dependencies installed from tons of sources, some of which could freely introduce exploits into popular programs at any time. If any of these break, you're going on a long hunt to track it down, ultimately to be met with authors that aren't responsive or some bug caused by god knows what incompatability.

We're stuck between the ever flowing battle of new language constructs and languages ontop of JS that try to make it 'easier'. JS lacks very important things that devs have found to be necessary, like typings, and even trying to add typings is a huge battle in itself, that again, is ever changing. Just try and google for where you should put your .d.ts files, and you'l get 4 different answers, all from different stages of versions and recommendations.

You can't teach JS. You can only say that things never stay the same, so build things fast and break them quicker. What you consider 'properly' today, is tomorrows bad practice.