We said the same things when arrow functions got introduced using an outlandishly un-javascripty syntax, as well as when templating strings got introduced using

We said the same things when arrow functions got introduced using an outlandishly un-javascripty syntax, as well as when templating strings got introduced using symbols that were the domain of LaTeX. Now they're "just what JS looks like" to both old and new JS devs. Look past the syntax, because you'll master it quickly enough and 2 years down the line forget it was ever not part of the language: does the actual functionality it introduces improve on what we can do and how we write and understand code or not?