babel config unexplainably caused an odd image import issue in vue-loader 16.7.0

This didn't feel like a real issue, but some super edge case thing. Our Vue test
project is quite vanilla

Author: weaverryan

test/functional.js

@@ -1537,15 +1537,6 @@ module.exports = {
             config.enableSassLoader();
             config.enableLessLoader();
             config.enableTypeScriptLoader();
-            config.configureBabel(function(config) {
-                config.presets = [
-                    ['@babel/preset-env', {
-                        'targets': {
-                            'chrome': 52
-                        }
-                    }]
-                ];
-            });
 
             testSetup.runWebpack(config, (webpackAssert) => {
                 expect(config.outputPath).to.be.a.directory().with.deep.files([