Comment by Andrew Wooldridge on "Is it normal of me to like ES5 more than ES6?"

I have noticed several different types of stories other developers have had. Some want to stay in the past with ES5 and stick with what they know. Others are early adopters and jumped right in. Still others were dragged kicking and screaming to ES6 and have a lingering resentment. Realize this is one of the biggest advances in JavaScript in years. It's going to totally change how you write code. You can't expect to just switch without mentally gearing up for this. The folks I've seen who've had the best experience with this were ones that

Chose a few useful features to adopt and go deep with learning them.
Chose "full immersion" -- all new code is ES6. No exceptions.
Babel. Living in ES6 means you have to transpile your code to ES5. Welcome to the new world!
Learned how these changes actually allowed them to write cleaner and better code.
Adopted the mindset that JavaScript is going to start on a new evolutionary track, and that this is not the last time this will happen. Get involved in the process and have a stake in the outcome.

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