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I don't even get how his salary is an argument here, when babel is one of most critical parts in almost all web applications. His knowledge and skillset is way above any average "lead dev" and he's still doing "grunt" work. Sorry, but this is a very reasonable salary.

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Critical parts in almost all web applications, including those built directly on the pack of this work. Facebook, Gatsby, Next.js, Netlify and Cloudflare (a bit more indirectly).

If I had to hazard a guess, it's more of a "thing that somehow got into our React toolchain" and less of a "most critical part".

A thing that, if removed, would be a huge pain.

No not really, typescript or esbuild, among other things.

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