Sorry for the trouble you’ve encountered @splodingsocks.
The node SDK is definitely not a second class citizen. One of the projects that has been simmering and is hopefully getting underway soon is improvement in API ref and examples. In particular, the interplay between the documentation on developer.couchbase.com and these other artifacts.
By the way, you appear to be looking at old API ref. The current is at Couchbase Node.js SDK Index. I’m sure that’s partially our fault from a bad link, which is related to the above. It doesn’t get any better on that page in particular, but may be better on some of the others.
What would be great is if you can let @Richard_Smedley and @brett19 and @tyler.mitchell and I know of anything you run across that’s confusing. Just a post here in the Node.js category would be great. The link you mention above is certainly in that category. We can answer questions here and file issues to fix while we work on bigger infrastructure improvements.
p.s.: are splodingsocks like exploding kittens?