That's because Express has been seriously neglected for the past 10 years. That's why it's still version 4. I think you still have to hack in basic support for

That's because Express has been seriously neglected for the past 10 years. That's why it's still version 4. I think you still have to hack in basic support for async handlers. Performance is bad. Bad as in all the other frameworks use it as a baseline for their benchmarks lol.