There might be more appreciation for "how future maintainers write JavaScript", but that's not cool and it takes a couple of decades more experience.
Looks a lot like "read-only" web code I've encountered on projects, where waves of people decided it's easier to work around what's already there than amend it (and that's also how you end up with 20,000 line CSS files).
Looks a lot like "read-only" web code I've encountered on projects, where waves of people decided it's easier to work around what's already there than amend it (and that's also how you end up with 20,000 line CSS files).