I agree with you.
Unfortunately there's numerous perverse incentives within the business sector that are promoting this.
I'm glad I won't be alive in 2070 to fly intercontinental in an aeroplane with avionics written in Node.js...
If you want me to said what's the terrible thing? the code that very FEW people actually use, no one EVER VERIFIED it.
Do you dare to install these piece of crap to the plane you sit on?