"Do you think it could be inherent to the language?"

Not to the language but its users. Not to bash them, but most of them did not study IT on a university, did not learn about the KISS principle etc.

They just followed some tutorials to hack together stuff, now automated via LLM's.

So in a way the cause is the language as it is so easy to use. And the ecosystem grew organically from users like this - and yes, the ecosystem is full of bloat.

(I think claude nowdays is a bit smarter, but when building standalone html files without agents, I remember having to always tell chatgpt to explicitely NOT pull in yet another libary, but use plain vanilla js for a standard task, which usually works better and cleaner with the same lines of code or maybe 2 or 3 more for most cases. The standard was to use libaries for every new functionality )