just saying, mentioning a well known anti pattern as "advanced level of understanding" is kinda odd.
other than that i believe most of us know that there are shitloads (and then some) of bad javascript devs out there.
It is an anti-pattern but it's one that every framework takes advantage of. jQuery and Dojo use it heavily and it can be dangerous if you plan on incorporating it in strict mode. I will note strict mode in the article, thanks for pointing it out.