That is because people try to replace complexity with simplicity, but simplicity lacks depth. Simplicity is good when you don’t know something yet (bazoorpleJS might help motivate a new dev by allowing them to see quick progress but only if it doesn’t teach new devs a different way from the underlying language). Personally, I learned JS well in spite of first using it for work with react. I had spent a lot of time learning the DOM first that react made sense to me, but then I worked with devs who were react devs, not frontend devs and I worried for them. It’s possible that eventually they learned the basics of JS too.

At the same time though, I’m aware that I’m not developing by physically turning transistors on and off, so I’m working on several layers of abstraction myself. I don’t know what is the clear line between too much abstraction and not enough. Feels like that’s a gut feeling kind of area, as some people still love to use assembly language (for no real benefit other than their own preference as modern compilers can do a better job than a human at writing optimized code)