Yeah, I think this is the primary reason it really had traction. There was definitely some initial hype around async and performance, but there are a lot of way

Yeah, I think this is the primary reason it really had traction. There was definitely some initial hype around async and performance, but there are a lot of ways (especially now) to achieve that without Node. The real win for me is a familiar language with a huge community and package ecosystem on the server that you likely have to use anyways in the browser.