I completely agree with you and this is a large part of why I simply avoid Webpack, Babel and other, similar tools. Yes they can be useful but they are complete

I completely agree with you and this is a large part of why I simply avoid Webpack, Babel and other, similar tools. Yes they can be useful but they are completely unnecessary. Yes I said it. Everyone wants to get into the latest and greatest ASAP and this completely disregards the entire project. I would love to use EMCAScript 6 too but you know what? I don't want all the additional dependencies of babel, the configuration and the setup to run my code through it constantly just to test my code. I will wait 5 years when it's available enough on the client machines that I work with and then I will use it. Sometimes I feel like the "old timer" complaining about all the new wizbang things but at the end of the day I don't even care because my build will run, with minimal dependencies, out of the box after cloning the git repo. It's reproducible. It takes seconds at most and it's debuggable without trying to figure out how to use source maps inside of chrome.