>But still js=bad python=good.

I don't really understand the logic behind this comment. You're pointing this out like it's some contradiction in people's opinion.

But it's not like "block scope" is the one and only determinant of whether a language is good or bad, so lack of that alone would negate the above statement.

js could be bad and python good, regardless of whether Python lacks block scope. Doubly so since js also lacks it by default, and has only sort of tacked-it on with let/const.

But the even better answer is that both are languages with different strenghts and tradeoffs, that JS did have several bad design decisions early on, that both have evolved, and x=bad, y=good is a fanboi reaction, not a developer reaction.