[likeclockwork]

If you ditch Babel you won't be able to use ES8/9.

[hazza1]

For me ES6/7 has addressed all the low hanging fruit, I really hope ES8/9 is about removing features with only a few additions.

[tracker1]

Agreed... about the only thing from ES7 that I feel the burning need for is await/async, which I've been using for some time via Babel, and it makes the code so much easier to reason with... the hardest part is explaining to people that an async function returns a Promise and can be wrapped/used as such.

[wangii]

everybody agrees to add "only a few additions", except has different set of them!