Can you elaborate on this? I've always felt that the Node community, and the wider JavaScript community alongside it, has always been open to and embracing of constructive criticism, whether or not it's regarding the language itself (TC39, codemods / babel transformers, TypeScript, and any language that targets (Node)JS's ecosystem), established frameworks and libraries (underscore -> lodash, moment.js -> luxon), package management (pnpm, yarn), or even governance (the io.js fork, which was later on merged back into Node) and module systems (es modules, commonjs, et cetera).
Ryan's original criticisms regarding Node were totally valid, but most of them weren't really easily addressable without significant breakage or a long migration strategy, which potentially could've caused a _lot_ of issues and unclarity for many years.