[thejameskyle]

The positives outweigh the 37 extra keystrokes you have to make to do the exact same thing as before.

[puls]

What was the downside to doing the same thing as before by default?

[thejameskyle]

There's a pretty lengthy discussion about it here https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/2168

I may do a followup blog post about it.

[coldtea]

Backwards compatibility? Keeping with users expectations? Sensible defaults? Where's the fun in that?