I disagree that investors are the cause, though I appreciate the sentiment. Communities develop from leaders, and the only leader Node & Javascript has ever had

I disagree that investors are the cause, though I appreciate the sentiment. Communities develop from leaders, and the only leader Node & Javascript has ever had was Ryan Dahl. From what I can tell, Ryan blindly applied unix principles to the server in a garbage language. I don't know why he thought that was a good idea; maybe he was just fuckin bored. That sentiment, that tiny is better, was like patient zero, and the frontend community with no leader of it's own, cargo-culted it to infinity. These idiots literally invented a principle that people now refer to as "composibility". Really it means that your library is fucking tiny and does nothing. The only form of leadership present in the frontend development community are large companies, like Facebook. So what happens is a developer who works for Facebook inherits Facebook's brand power within the community, and a bunch of junior developers who don't have a clue assume developer X is Uncle-fuckin Bob. Inmates running the asylum. There is no pragmatic thought leadership in Javascript; only children looking for recognition and a podium at an O'Reilly conference.