Yes.

People in general are really bad at grasping the concept that $programming_paradigm are not all equally suited for a given problem.

Object Oriented, functional, async, strict type system, etc.

I've noticed an almost evangelical nature of people in trying to push their prefered environment on others. Guess what? Node.js is not the answer to everything (and I do 90% of my work in node!). But you know what? Neither is OO, or functional programming. There may be many advantages to your language of choice, but that doesn't mean it's always better.

Fetching resources from many different areas - especially external or unpredictable (3rd party) services - that has async written all over it, and node makes that easy.