Well, you were right about one thing: you don't get it. ;)

Just look at the prototype hell. Look at the quirkiness of the comparison operator. Type inference. The mess piles up extremely quickly.

"Disciplined devs don't make those mistakes" is NOT an argument and never was. Decades later, people believing themselves to be godlike C/C++ devs still make stupid mistakes.

But I guess learning from the past won't happen for people who fanboy and have a survivorship bias. And have money on the line.