While I'm not a huge fan of the tone, I do agree with a few points. The ES6/ES7 syntax is freaking awful... I still write almost all of my JavaScript code in ES5 because I don't really want to have to deal with all of the magical stuff Babel/Traceur/TypeScript/whatever is doing behind the scenes.
That being said, it's not all bad. System.js/JSPM has improved my front-end workflow quite a bit and the SPAs I've made with the new workflow have been both stable, compatible and fast (very few end user complaints, lots of praise, quick development). So while some things have become convoluted, not everything is dire.
That being said, it's not all bad. System.js/JSPM has improved my front-end workflow quite a bit and the SPAs I've made with the new workflow have been both stable, compatible and fast (very few end user complaints, lots of praise, quick development). So while some things have become convoluted, not everything is dire.