what is wrong with nodejs?

Here are my first impressions.
Downloaded nodejs. Want to implement mysql connection.
Get error from mysql client: update version of mysql.
Stack overflow - it tells me to install mysql2 instead of mysql via npm.
Then I find that all sql queries are async. All good native async/await will do.
No - it does not the mysql2 library says I need to install another sync-mysql lib.

I give up - revert to writing not as sharp code, just to get it done. 
Is this what modern programming is about - empty overcomplex bloat and abstractions?
Just for the justification of pseudo programmer egos who don't understand shit but 
can brag about knowing the attributes and configs of things they memorized?

Fuck this shit. Fuck nodejs. Fuck stackoverflow with its middleware recomendations.