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Most of the examples listed there are issues that don't affect real applications. It's just garbage code, so the output ends up being garbage too. Programmers don't write code like that, unless they are doing it as a joke. A few of those examples can be real issues sometimes, but they are not that big of a deal to an experienced JavaScript programmer.
It's an imperfect language like any other.
A well-designed language wouldn't require "experience" for stupid gotchas like these to not be that big of a deal in the first place.
After all, I'm sure a sufficiently "experienced programmer" could adapt to anything up to and including fucking Malbolge if necessary, but that doesn't mean it's equal to a language that's actually good.
Differences in quality between languages are real, and Javascript is closer to the bad end of that spectrum.