Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that V8 itself is the second inflection point? NodeJS (which is just the V8 engine plus a server-side runtime environment)

Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that V8 itself is the second inflection point? NodeJS (which is just the V8 engine plus a server-side runtime environment) seems to owe a lot of its success to Google creating an actual fast, JIT-compiling JavaScript implementation in the form of V8. In fact, the entire Cambrian explosion of new Javascript frameworks in the 2010s probably would not have taken place without V8 enabling them to run with acceptable performance.