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Hot take: tools with built-in support for Babel or TypeScript are bad for the ecosystem. They stifle competition, and make it significantly harder for a new compiler to get adoption. It also harms Babel/TS by having another tool locked to their major making it harder to iterate.

I sure as heck don't disagree, but does this apply to e.g. create-react-app as well? Realistically, most people don't want to fiddle with the toolchain, especially if what they're trying to achieve has already been done, making repeating that task a total distraction.