Frankly, with yarn, typescript, and a packaging / compressing tools of your choice, web frontend development is pretty pleasant and efficient these days. (To say nothing of using Elm, if you can afford it.) Typescript is particular is nice compared to, say, Python, and even to Java (though modern Java is quite neat.)

The only unpleasant part is dependency management, but you have the same, or worse, with Python or Ruby, and neither Java nor Go are completely hassle-free either.