Echo JS 0.11.0

The answer to your points is simple. Some people just don't want to go away from expressjs. Express Happiness provides some tools, configuration options and other stuff that's missing from express because of its unopinionated nature. 
So that's the basic idea behind it. Keep using express but in a more structured / opinionated way.
And @davidchase, that's exaclty why is called "Express Happiness" :)

Yes, it works on mobile. Check the website from a mobile device

CSS-like animation definitions for your websites, using external files. It's time to decouple our javascript code from animations logic.

I'm open to anything as soon as it has good points. A theory that is based on the axiom "javascript sucks" sucks as well