I objected to it at first. Then I learned how much nicer Javascript is with Babel. No worrying about browser compatibility, Babel just makes it all work. If

I objected to it at first. Then I learned how much nicer Javascript is with Babel. No worrying about browser compatibility, Babel just makes it all work. If I see some stage 3 proposal that I want to use, no problem, drop it in. When I wanted to start moving over to Typescript, one line in Babel and I could start writing .ts files. While learning what in the world was going in with regards to Babel was a bit of a painful start, now that I have it up and running, life is good.