As a primary backend developer, I want to add my two cents:

> Top-Level Await: Simplifying Initialization

This feels absolutely horrible to me. There is no excuse for not having a proper entry-point function that gives full control to the developer to execute everything that is needed before anything else happens. Such as creating database connections, starting services and connecting to APIs, warming up caches and so on. All those things should be run (potentially concurrent).

Until this is possible, even with top-level await, I personally have to consider node.js to be broken.

> Modern Testing with Node.js Built-in Test Runner

Sorry, but please do one thing and do it well.

> Async/Await with Enhanced Error Handling

I wish had JVM-like logging and stack traces (including cause-nesting) in node.js...

> 6. Worker Threads: True Parallelism for CPU-Intensive Tasks

This is the biggest issue. There should be really an alternative that has builtin support for parallelism that doesn't force me to de/serialize things by hand.

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Otherwise a lot of nice progress. But the above ones are bummers.