I strongly agree. What would help most JS programmers (especially in node) would be to leverage the great asynchronous features in JavaScript and eliminate the nested function pyramid of doom. Callbacks and nested functions work great until you have conditionals or want to use try/catch blocks in a reasonable way. Promises are a viable solution but I've never really been a fan (it just feels weird).

This was the rationale behind Kal (https://github.com/rzimmerman/kal/), which effectively provides "await" (called "wait for") in ES5.