This, by the way, is a new normal. Organizations, teams and individuals within an organization, especially its buoracracy have self-preservation and keeping their status in mind rather than any engineering discipline, leave alone craftsmanship. Such is the nature of any bloated social formation, be it government, church, army or corporation.

The very first person who suggested Node http server must be fired that very day for offensive incompetence. I could hardly imagine any more satirical example. Hypervisor in Java, perhaps.

But idiots are bullshitting another idiots (PHP, Mongo, Node, Hadoop - you name it) whose only concern is to convince those one step higher in the hierarchy that they are still worth keeping, so any bizzare mix of trending [among idiots] memes would do.

Hey, Bivis, Node is cool, huh huh. Single-threaded callback hell in a language with implicit coersion, without standard module system (leave alone versioning) as a yet another useless layer of complexity to utilize lots of man-hours for o e more year? Lol wut? Node is cool.

So, all this is rather normal.