

Use TypeScript
While JS does suck, most of the people who complain endlessly about it are fairly inexperienced tbh. A lot has changed over the last 20 years and it’s honestly rare to code in pure JS nowadays. You can’t really escape it when doing frontend work anyways.
You can do a lot with modern css too, especially extensions like scss
The bigger problem imo is overuse of third party modules, especially through npm. That’s how you get a massive amount of bloat
Nope. It’s knowledge of anatomy combined with theatrics and skill. The drill bit goes through my sinus all the way to the back, and I have a forked tongue (just add fake blood)