Node's community is interesting — it's very greenfield. They have had the opportunity to built everything from the ground up, together, and take a fresh approach to all problems other languages have faced. Unfortunately, that led to a lot of wild-west style ground-staking, and the tremendously large number of silly dependencies (like mkdir_p) floating around.
They also had to figure out the "we need a foundation to own/protect the IP of the platform", something that Python's had for a very long time withe the PSF.
Generally, I have little respect for most Node developers. There are a lot of great ones out there, and it's the right tool for a lot of jobs. However, most Node developers generally seem to be very new programmers that really have no idea what they're doing, and often have a big chip on their shoulder to go along with it.
Hope that wasn't too negative!