It&#x27;s not that I don&#x27;t know how to set it up or use it, I just trust a future V8 implementation enough to wait for it over using a shim. I&#x27;ve also become a bit allergic to dependencies :P.<p>I do trust that it works, and if I were working on a big project that would be hard to refactor for a major language change, or if I were working on the front-end where the available features are up to question based on client, I would definitely use babel. We have a lot of older code like that where I wish we had used babel years back.<p>In my case our backend is distributed across dozens of small (usually &lt;400 line) packages so if a really nice ES2015 or 2016 feature becomes available the effort to refactor or rewrite will be measured in hours or days, not weeks or months.