Slightly off-topic but holy cow, this! I&#x27;ve been describing this to many JS developers when it comes up and I find that many feel entirely the same way but we tend to not do anything about it. Gulp can use babel, babel can use webpack, webpack can do babel, it&#x27;s madness frankly and yet the pattern continues. Maybe I&#x27;m beginning to become a curmudgeon but I&#x27;ll just sit out of this game and use stable tooling and potentially other languages that can provide a more mature workflow. What really gets me is there are things like Dart that don&#x27;t get a lot of traction though it provides mature support for a lot of the things we need to bolt on to JS to make it a usable and productive language. Not that you <i>need</i> those things anyway to be productive I digress.