Is it really though? Node is infamous for attracting large groups of people with notoriously misguided engineering practices whose egos far surpass their experience and knowledge.
I've been stuck using it for about 4 years and it makes me literally hate computers and programming. Everything is so outrageously bad and wrapped in smarmy self congratulating bullshit. It's just so staggeringly terrible...
So these kind of catastrophes every few months for bullshit reasons seem kind of obvious and expected, doesn't it?