Is ES7 only composed of two features?

Question

According to this blog: https://webapplog.com/es7-es8/

ES7 features are:

Array.prototype.includes
Exponentiation Operator

Is this right? If it is, why it took a year to commit only two minor changes to the standard (Array.prototype.includes is just an alias to indexOf !== -1)?

What makes you think they took a year? What did you expect, to have more features? If so, which? — Bergi, Sep 21 '17 at 15:26
Simple: all the major changes to the standard took longer than a year. — Bergi, Sep 21 '17 at 15:26
@Bergi Do you mean that bigger changes just will be included in next versions? — lilezek, Sep 21 '17 at 15:30
They *were* included in the next version, which has already been released. — Bergi, Sep 21 '17 at 15:32
I've added the explanation to the answer. It looks like there is some confusion between 'ES7' name (which is deprecated) for everything after ES6, and 'ES7' name (which is just incorrect) for ES2016. — Estus Flask, Sep 21 '17 at 16:47
Also have a look at the [tag:ecmascript-7] tag description that someone carefully created ;) — Felix Kling, Sep 21 '17 at 17:27

Bergi · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-21T17:22:08.677

Yes, those were the new features ready at the time.

Of course, there also have been lots of editorial changes that fixed minor spec issues.

Notice that instead of ES7 (ECMAScript 7. Edition) one should rather use the term ES2016 to refer to that release with its relatively low significance. "ES7" was at the time (between the releases of ES2015 and ES2016) often misused as a synonym of ES.next, which includes the features that landed in later releases and the ones that never were parts of any specification.

Is ES7 only composed of two features?

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