> however crazy you think handwritten js is, generated js is just obviously worse to try to read (and you will have to)

Or...maybe I won’t; I’ve used plenty of compile-to-JS languages (including what starts as “js” with JSX and modern features but gets compiled to plain, and more widely supported, JS), and I spend as much time reading and debugging JS in its compiled form as I do reading and and debugging .NET or Python bytecode instead of source, which is none.