That's a little unfair since NodeJS was released 3 years after Lucee (then Railo). And probably the main usecase is more around people with stack loads of code

That's a little unfair since NodeJS was released 3 years after Lucee (then Railo). And probably the main usecase is more around people with stack loads of code already that they need to keep running. If you were a CF shop, throwing everything out and switching to Node was probably not a great use of your time, especially given that Node didn't even exist at the time! :-)