The same could be said about Netbeans or other specific optional parts of Java development. JS devs that target anything after the iphone 5S (2013, almost 4 yea

The same could be said about Netbeans or other specific optional parts of Java development. JS devs that target anything after the iphone 5S (2013, almost 4 years ago, before 64bit processors even arrived in android land) don't need to use babel, and arguably http2 takes most of the benefits from minifying and bundling. It is amazing the amount of stuff that JS does if you don't follow the trends blindly and think a bit about your usage and tools.