You realize that a project with 14k direct dependents is obviously hugely widely used, right? And that's not even considering that the intended usage of babel

You realize that a project with 14k direct dependents is obviously hugely widely used, right? And that's not even considering that the intended usage of babel is for compiling end applications (many of which are not open source), not libraries; this is likely undercounting the number of "real" projects using it by several orders of magnitude.