The javscript version of the hedonic treadmill ensures there will always be a juicy new feature that node&#x2F;browsers don&#x27;t have yet but Babel&#x2F;other transpilers usually will. Just because it&#x27;s 93% of the way there on ES6 at this moment doesn&#x27;t mean that a few months from now people, your team included, won&#x27;t be clamoring to be able to write with the new sweet features from ECMAScript 2017 or whatever. The only solution is to keep Babel a part of your stack perpetually and really that&#x27;s not so bad in my opinion.