So... Maybe you were right about the hyperbole part. If you felt it was hatred I probably went a bit to strong haha. But I certainly don't like when you have limited or no choices about something. Also it's not an inanimate thing, there's a community of actual people building and expanding the thing, I blame them for my sufferings :p

I'm an entrepreneur of sorts so there are stuff that I can't really avoid because no one else will do them for me. Doing frontend work is part of that list. I also do a bit of "devops" freelancing and it's hard to avoid to have to fiddle with npm there as well. The size of the part of the industry where you can avoid js is shrinking by the day