Yes, people care way more about which cool new features were delivered than which technical debts were solved by a proposed initiative. Sometimes it’s frustrating to see that performance improvement work only gets prioritized after a big incident.

The problem of JavaScript is growing far more than its initial scope. Especially since there wasn’t an official org that took care of JavaScript development (and there were companies that wanted to deliberately sabotage such effort, like… Microsoft), and basically the community took the initiative of providing shared libraries, each one looking at their specific problem but ignoring the whole.