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It is just a common thing everywhere, not just in javaScript. It even has a Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

"Well, no true developer uses ES5"

Ignore the haters. Use what is best for the job based on a variety of criteria.

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I needed to ask about this division because I'm rather new in this community, and I created the tool which is devoted to simplify development of UI (react-ui-builder). And now I'm deciding if I need to switch generation of the source code to ES6, or wait a bit.

You can still target ES6 and have people use a transpiler to hit ES5, noting that not everybody is familiar with the tool chain(s) necessary to do that efficiently.

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