No, it's the brainchild of an engineer. Somebody actually thought nodejs was a good idea. Face it, there are lots of really bad engineers out there.
However, this is true for literally every language we code in.
That's an appeal to authority. It's also worth noting that nodejs is not a Google project and it is barely used internally at all. Only for small toy projects. Google uses python for scripting, or java for real servers.
It is, but it's also shorthand for "people who are likely to be good based on the fact they've been through a rigorous hiring process designed to filter out the worst engineers". Sometimes, maybe, you should let the principle of charity win over the rigorous rhetorical logic you can use to dismiss an argument because it broke The Rules you learned on LessWrong.
Maybe you shouldn't try pulling the Principle of Charity to support an argument from authority.