I'm going to make a guess at your age based on this list, I predict you are less than 30 years old.

This is because your list is missing Java. During the mid to late 90s Java was Jesus. It was the solution to every possible computing problem imaginable. The amount of hype surrounding Java puts anything we've seen since to shame, even NoSQL, "cloud" computing, social networking, etc. It was infuriating. And it took a few years of everyone and their mother banging away at Java development before people realized that it wasn't the Messiah, it was just a technology with a few advantages as well as some disadvantages, and that it was a good idea to only use it sometimes and keep using other languages when appropriate.

Remember that JavaScript has absolutely nothing to do with Java except the name was changed and some of the syntax was changed to make it more closely resemble Java merely out of a crass marketing attempt on Netscape's part.

I think the hype cycle[1] is more apt than the Gandhi quote in several of the cases you mentioned.

In fact, I would say that node has simply passed the "Peak of Inflated Expectations" and is/has-been descending into the "Trough of Disillusionment".

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle

I agree with you completely. I thing it so important to remember both the value of criticism and that the technology is still growing and adapting.