"But it makes life so much easier." Is this because you don't have to install a plugin for every thing you want? I found both babel and typescript to have a l

"But it makes life so much easier." Is this because you don't have to install a plugin for every thing you want? I found both babel and typescript to have a learning curve and a configuration step that required dev cycles being spent on getting it to work properly. It really wasn't much of a difference in terms of getting things up and running. Typescript has plenty of weird nuances and configuration settings that are required to get things working properly, just like babel.