IDK, I've been writing JS since it was invented, so 20 years now. It was one of the first languages I learned and even then I thought it was easy. Certainly easier than C, which I was also teaching myself because it was clear at the time that nobody took JS seriously. And that was at a time when there were ZERO libraries. It took almost 10 years before anyone started serious work on libraries for JS. Up to that point, you just copy-pasta'd snippets.
I remember thinking it was easy like VB but was easier to show to other people. I still think of it in similar terms: easy to write like Python but a hell of a lot easier to deploy and show off.