Sp-dev-docs: Build pipeline with Webpack 2?

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Are there any news about upgrading spfx build pipeline to webpack 2?

Webpack 1 is officially deprecated. Many folks upgraded and use webpack 2 on different projects.

When working with spfx sometimes you need to add additional webpack loader or to do any other fine tuning for webpack task. It will be much more convenient to do that with webpack 2, because this is current version of webpack, no need to switch "context" back to webpack 1, also the schema for webpack 2 is much more understandable.
One another caveat with webpack 1 that some loaders don't guarantee backward compatibility with webpack 1.

Taking all this into account I really would like to see webpack 2 in the build pipeline.