I think it's a common misconception that JavaScript isn't an elegant language. The real issue is that it's the only language with a monopoly. So people who want to work on the web have to use it. This results in people being forced to use it against their will. So obviously a lot of people don't like it - probably because it doesn't have that feature they really like from their primary language - whatever that is. If we invented a replacement language, the issue would not go away, but simply shift.

I think instead the real issue is that we're too bad at educating people in how to properly use the language. Sure there's corners of the language that are bad, but as a seasoned JavaScript developer you simply know to ignore those corners. So they don't bother you. You instead focus on the cool things about the language. Any programming language have good and bad things. And we as developers learn to focus and leverage the good parts to our advantage. The ideal of a perfect language is a pipe dream unfortunately - instead my advice is to really learn the language and embrace it instead of fighting it.