Recently as an exercise I worked through the examples in Sandi Metz's "Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby" using Javascript. To approximate her examples I did have to do a few pretty unintuitive things (for example use .call to invoke parent constructors, whereas in Ruby the native syntax allows it). But it wasn't anything that mind-bending to wrap your head around, and it was learned in just a few minutes (learn is a strong word, remember, realize or connect the dots might be more applicable).

That I suppose is the core of the "I hate JS" arguments, to get it to do what you want, it has a slightly unintuitive non-syntactical way of solving it's problems. That of course, is only the case if you intend to replicate the programming styles the syntax of other languages gives you. I don't think you should. And now with ES6, we have those other styles in our syntax, so it's even less of a problem. Hate on JS all you want, but it's probably not so amenable to you because you're using a metal file when you really need a belt sander, close but not quite right.