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> We shouldn’t expect the objects in JavaScript to perfectly translate to their DOM counterparts or vice versa.

Since JavaScript was invented specifically to manipulate the DOM, I'm not sure that that follows.

That's definitely one of the main original use cases, but it would have been a bad decision to base the entire language around the limitations of HTML, and I doubt JavaScript today would be the most popular programming language today if they had. You can read the original ECMAScript 1 standard here, which is titled: "A general purpose, cross-platform programming language"[1].

https://ecma-international.org/wp-content/uploads/ECMA-262_1...

I think a lot of people dislike that JavaScript is a general purpose programming language, rather than being a scripting engine for browsers.

A lot of people dislike any tool that actually has wide spread usage. No one complains about tools that have been abandoned.

"There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses." - Bjarne Stroustrop

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