[lolinder]

The thing is, express's foot guns are well known and well documented, and you basically just enumerated them. If you pick another framework then you'll be left exploring its footguns on your own. That may or may not be worth it to you, but it's not obvious to me that choosing the well-known framework is a worse choice than choosing the ones that try to solve its problems but don't yet have the rough edges discovered and documented.

[NylonMeltdown]

I think there's a slight difference between doing something that nobody's ever done before and just choosing a less travelled path. In any case, I'd rather not use the tool with well-known foot-guns, hoping that all developers in the project (and future ones!) do know these foot-guns as well.

I'd rather chose a tool with less foot-guns (or if not possible: provide easy workarounds that are consistenly used). With the design-flaws of express (no fault to it, since it predates standardised Promises by more than 5 years) and the availability of a simple and sane evolution of its API (koa), I really don't get why so many still cling to express.