[morganherlocker]

At the same time, developers need to ship using the tools that are currently available. I think a multi-pronged approach is inevitable. Of course, I say this as someone who avoids this sort of tool as a general rule, since it seems risky to use in production, so I definitely see what you are saying. On the other hand, this sort of thinking would probably have been an argument against jQuery several years ago, and despite the fact that it was a 'hack' over the awful js standard api, it became a de facto standard through brute force of popularity.