I was confused at first as well, but I guess it doesn't hurt if this generates some more discussion (with the help of paul irish and his fame :D).
Fun fact, I was just about to migrate all of my js to es6.. Might have to investigate further what transpiler to chose instead of blindly do what the mass seems to do.
It was discussed recently here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11021271