Can you elaborate on how JS is more intuitive than, say, Rust? I can give a simple counter example - make a JS object, assign another object as a key, copy it three times into a list (without deepcopy) and modify the object inside. Suddenly you've modified all three objects. Not intuitive at all, and easily missed if you're a less experienced developer. Rust would stop you in your tracks and force you to explicitly say that you want that behaviour.
JS has more than its share of problems, but I wouldn't consider that to be one of them. It's the same reference semantics as Java and Python, and people are used to it.
People are used to it but saying that is kind of a cop out. It's very easy to write code that reads well logically but forgets about reference semantics, especially if you're a junior developer.
