> The more ways there are to write in a language, the harder it gets to read the code of someone else using a different style guide, or with different preferences, than you. This matters a whole lot in a language so completely dependent on 3rd party libraries as JS is.

Hmmm, kinda.

The pipe operator enables more readable code, so whilst I agree there would be more ways to do things, the average code readability could well go up.