I don't understand what you mean by "shoving it further down the throats of the masses". Are people being ordered to use Node.JS against their will somewhere?
And there's also the long tail of inexperienced developers who made their own decision to use it and left a broken application that an experienced developer is called in to fix.
I also prefixed my statement with "akin to", which is to say it's not literally being shoved down the throats of developers but the effect is similar.