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The bigger win here are projects that increasingly do more and do it faster. You can essentially replace babel’s hydra with typescript (single dependency) and do it faster too. TS also essentially supports “preset-env” via the target property (however you must pick the ES version, not a browser list)

The important part now is ensuring that these projects don’t just die and disappear like, say, Rich Harris’ “buble” tool (a very old “fast Babel alternative”)