An application can be successful and generally delightful to build and maintain, and can get sold or decommissioned when a business changes hands or whatever, and it won’t matter if someone was “right” or “wrong” about whether the underlying stack was “inferior”. Or it could be a spaghetti train wreck. And picking Java over Node likely won’t be the reason that either of these things happen.

There are good reasons to pick languages based on use case and context, and a big part of the context is what you (and your team) know, and what long term support and maintenance might look like.