I find myself constantly frustrated with javascript because devs value a lack of abstraction. I've termed this software nihilism, the idea that the only thing that matters is <some metric> and all abstraction is useless.

This is ironic because JS is one of the most wasteful languages to get an outcome which does not aid in development speed. Yes, there's a sandbox, but it's clear that you can significantly increase speed if you use the same sandbox with web assembly (for example).

This makes working on a js project twice distracting for me. First, because I want to add the abstraction (and know I'll be met with resistance), and second, because actually reading concrete code like that all day long is laborious.