I agree and I can't help but think that all the concerns about source maps and being unable to read the output comes from people who saw the transpilation aspec

I agree and I can't help but think that all the concerns about source maps and being unable to read the output comes from people who saw the transpilation aspect to the language and freaked out, and never actually tried to use it to get something done. The only time I had to look at the source was when there were bugs in the compiler. (This was years ago, and I submitted patches.)