It sounds very dangerous to me but who am I to judge.

It's nothing.

For the global ones that need admin permissions to edit, it's no different from all the other code of mediawiki itself like the php.

For the user scripts, it's no worse than the fact that you can run tampermonkey in your browser and have it modify every page from evry site in whatever way your want.

It is kind of risky - you now have an entire, mostly unreviewed, ecosystem of javascript code, that users can experiment with.

However its been really useful to allow power users to customize the interface to their needs. It also is sort of a pressure release for when official devs are too slow for meeting needs. At this point wikipedia has become very dependent on it.

That is how Mediawiki works. Everything is a page, including CSS and JS. It is not really different than including JS in a webpage anywhere else.