All the points in the first (Uriel) rant are attacking JavaScript itself, and most if not all those points are remedied by using ES2015 and FRP. All the points

All the points in the first (Uriel) rant are attacking JavaScript itself, and most if not all those points are remedied by using ES2015 and FRP. All the points in the second (Ryan) rant are attacking bloated/poorly-scoped software and abstractions, and none of the points (except mentioning $NODE_PATH) have any relevance at all to Node.js. So really none of this is relevant to Node.js (or JavaScript) being inherently bad, it's just pointing out that people can use it for bad things, which is no different to any other language or runtime.