Then whats the point?

Oh yes, Front-end developers suffer this decision daily. Luckily there things like Typescript to ease the pain.

I feel the idea was that anyone should be able to make a webpage by just copy pasting snippits and to help with that html and Javascript will attempt to continue as best as it can, even if there are glaring issues.

This is the way

Is it weird that in my brain Eclipse users have a longer, grayer beard than people that use vim?