I would have to disagree. There's no way saving a few keystrokes on an arrow function or being able to use 'class' will ever compare to understanding, let alone

I would have to disagree. There's no way saving a few keystrokes on an arrow function or being able to use 'class' will ever compare to understanding, let alone debugging, gulp streams. IMO JS tooling has gone way overboard, but in code, as in any artform, everything is subjective.