I think the problem is they are really good for writing proxies like nginx, linkerd, haproxy, that everyone uses, so you have these really high profile, high performance siren songs. But they have a crucial design advantage- it is a tight loop making a small number of decisions before punting the work off to the OS.

Then people start trying to apply coroutines to a bunch of arbitrarily complicated and unbounded business logic things and everything blows up.