While I hold your same opinion I think you're being down voted for not elaborating on the way as it appears you're only ranting and not adding anything to the c

While I hold your same opinion I think you're being down voted for not elaborating on the way as it appears you're only ranting and not adding anything to the conversation. For me most of my work in node needs to work over multiple versions and most of my browser work also needs to work over multiple browsers. Transpiling with Babel means I can't debug the code I actually wrote (even mappings won't work in all browsers or older ones) and I don't need extra, unnecessary complexity added to my build and development. I like many of ES6's features but I value simplicity over almost everything so I can only hope to use it at some point in the future.