I agree with lots of things in your reply. In an enterprise setting where you mostly don't care about size of deployed application, then Electron is a godsend, where you can deploy a 500MB "Hello, World!" desktop app written in HTML/CSS/JS/TS in an afternoon. I know all about the bloat, but 99% of enterprise users don't care. A good web programmer can pump out very slick desktop apps incredibly quickly using Electron.

    > I can't see any reason to choose node for typical backend programming and such unless your devs only know JS.

This is the primary explanation when I see NodeJS backends in enterprise. Mostly, those projects only have medium to low skill "web devs" (sorry, I cringe when I write that term).