That's not an uncommon opinion at all, and I share the same view as you. New languages/run times that leak their concurrency model to application code are ugly.

That's not an uncommon opinion at all, and I share the same view as you. New languages/run times that leak their concurrency model to application code are ugly. I've sworn off Node, and all event driven run times, for this reason. Erlang is far superior in this regard. The VM has an amazing scheduler. Immutability and message passing are the icing on the cake that make writing performant and maintainable systems that scale a joy.