Not at all. Express is more like Rack than Rails. It provides routing and middleware setup... and that's pretty much it. It's a microframework designed to be minimal, so you are crticising its core design.

You should compare Rails/Django to full-fledged frameworks such as Geddy/Tower/Locomotive/Meteor/Compound... Many of these frameworks are built on top of Express, leveraging it just like Rails/Sinatra leverage Rack.

That's why you should never criticise what you don't know! :)