You are right. We did a first research of things that has to change according to ES6 and it is really a lot to do especially cause of formulas which are one of our main goals for 2016.
https://github.com/handsontable/handsontable/issues/3082 is visible as a improvement suggestion so any other issue categorized as a bug has a higher priority but we are aware of changes that are pushing us to chase the newest technologies.