Besides the Stockholm Syndrome?...I think you have me there. It's not that JS doesn't have strengths, it's whether some of its widely derided flaws resulted in happy tradeoffs? I'm banging my head thinking of something specifically (and widely agreed on) but it's early. I guess the same question could be asked of JavaScript...does its exclusively great libraries, such as D3, exist in JS purely because JS is the most popular language for interactivity, rather than because JS was well-suited for such libraries? Probably the former.