i've spent years getting away from procedural, and switching to functions, classes/methods. now, we want to get away from that and go back to procedural?
that's all fine and dandy, but you're trying to have a new trick conversation with an old dog that just doesn't care. you're bringing some sort of logic to a conversation where it's not needed. it works for me. i don't get paid to make UI apps or write heavy code nonsense with server side JS. i use a proper back end language. JS can stay in the browser and manipulate the DOM thank you very much. i get paid to make heavy processing code that sometimes is helpful to have UI dashboards.
i can whip up a JQuery front end faster for my needs than most can even figure out what NPM librar[y|ies] they need to use