The only motivation for me is in attempting to get rid of there even being two modes. I don't really care if it was strict or not strict, just that there's only one of them. Obviously the horse left the barn for ES5 long ago, but the desire to collapse down to one mode in as much code as possible is still motivating. I saw bundling as many carrots in with strict mode as a way to leverage developers into the single mode JS utopia of the future. I appreciate the arguments about the negatives of forcing the pragma incantation though.
How about making ES6 features only available inside modules? I guess that's kind of a cop-out though, since you don't always need a module. I still yearn for that utopian JS future where there is no need for two modes.
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