The writing has been on the wall for a very [1] very [2] long [3] time. Facebook and some consumers of their ecosystem have been holding the fort, but it was inevitable something like this would happen.

1: https://npm-stat.com/charts.html?package=babel-core&package=...

2: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=...

3: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/18/11/25/017227/micros...