It’s absolutely insane and there’s really no reason for it.

Controversy with the angular team or high profile developers — why?

I’ve been off social media for years but I’d hear about it second hand from coworkers.

A lot of JS is extremely toxic.

JS is actually okay. Horrible, horrible language, but like PHP there's some decent stuff in it. The only bad things about JS (other than JS itself) are the "write everything in four layers of frameworks" (but that's more a webdev thing than a JavaScript thing) and "four billion node dependencies that re-implement JavaScript built-ins" (bad, but not "extremely toxic").