This is just a discourse based on "I need to churn out something, I need that fast and I didn't start in the web game when Backbone and E4X were solid corporate choices". If you are not in a hurry, work in a solid team and have a good attention span, a lot of clickbait idiocy around JS may not happen. It's just that the lone inexperienced guy is one of millions inexperienced guys who are taught the wrong ways everyday.
I'm presenting you one of countless examples: a lot of coding bootcamps teach React, maybe with TS, maybe with JS.
Enter react-create-app.
https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app
The docs are a link, while the commands you can copy and paste are laid out at 9th row in the README. That will become a habit for a junior.