

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, just knowledge of anatomy combined with theatrics and skill. The drill bit goes into my sinus until it hits the back of my head, and I have a forked tongue (just add fake blood)