>Based on this, it's hard not to state that current Node-developer are the new PHP-developers: Unsophisticated, completely unable to see when the tools at hand are lacking, and happy with a with whatever they can get running.

PHP has had debugging for a long time, PHPStorm is pretty much now the standard in php development and includes full productivity in that area. It also doesn't face the issues web-JS has with pre-processing, post-processing and compilation of JS code that has to have a source map back to the original source.