That's just never, ever a credible assertion, "I've never met anyone who likes X"....then you must not talk to many people. There's a lot of people in the world and a lot of JS developers and PLENTY of them like it.
I do, however, object to the massive amounts of dependency in the Nodejs ecosystem. It's as if no-one learned the lessons of DLL Hell. We already know that dependencies are bad, people!
I don't have any objection to dependencies where they're necessary. But the node culture isn't "where necessary", it's "wherever some code might be vaguely useful". Left-pad is a classic example: this is a one-liner[1] so why the hell are we including it as a dependency?
[1]: ((str,len)=>("0000000000"+str).slice(len*-1))("test",10)