You don&#x27;t need a .babelrc file in every directory, your coworkers are doing something wrong. Also, in that .babelrc file you can customize the generator behaviour to your heart&#x27;s content - if your coworkers have chosen bad presets then your issue is with them, not Babel.<p>I agree that Babel is slow. Hey, there&#x27;s always Buble: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;buble.surge.sh&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;buble.surge.sh&#x2F;</a>, but then you lose a lot of configurability. There&#x27;s always a trade-off.<p>And yes, the generator stuff is far more verbose than it needs to be, but because Babel is trying to cover all browsers by default. It&#x27;s like jQuery. Good news is you can opt out.