Not sure that's fair. I think his point was that instead of improving performance by switching to async and navigating callback soup and task unfairness, we should really be improving the performance of context switching, and he probably has a point.

Just a few weeks ago there was an interview with Ryan Dahl where he said:

"...I think Node is not the best system to build a massive server web. I would definitely use Go for that. And honestly, that’s basically the reason why I left Node. It was the realization that: oh, actually, this is not the best server side system ever."[0]

[0]https://www.mappingthejourney.com/single-post/2017/08/31/epi...