Yes it was. That's why IBM, Microsoft etc rushed to adopt or sponsor Node.js. IBM acquired strongloop a NodeJs based enterprise framework. Microsoft extended their Chakra engine to support NodeJs but its still work in progress shows it lost steam..

Enterprises do not work with a brilliant language runtime, they need large ecosystem support from large vendors (read enteripse tools) and large availability of workforce, both of which are lacking in NodeJs esp. compared to Java. It's unfortunate as Typescript have now elevated NodeJs to a mature package and should have made stronger in roads into enterprises.