I work on Reason, so I think I'm relatively unbiased enough to address this. JavaScript's widely popular, disregarding why it's come to be this way. Any language this popular (and with a history of being used in a different context, nonetheless) ends up having warts and being used by folks who are sometimes less skilled.

In that regard, "jumping on the types bandwagon like it's some new discovery" is exactly right, because it's indeed lots of people's first language. But I don't see why this should sound so negative. Newcomers are now introduced to types and they're amazed by them. That's welcomed and we shouldn't feel they're taking away our own shiny toy and tainting them or whatever.

I think it pays to be nice to beginners. Sure, you don't get the usual quality you're looking for in a niche expert language where communications are atomic, on-point, and lossless, but that's _OK_. All in all, things like a better type system, better language semantics and better paradigms are still worth fighting for.