VS Code is not accepting Optional Chaining operator in Node.js code

Question

I'm using Node.js 14.15.1 in VS Code and it is showing an error when I'm trying to use the optional chaining operator. I am not using any other dependency apart from Express. The line of code is fairly simple.

if(something.includes(String(anotherThing.value)?.trim())) {
 // do something
}

Can you shed some light on a possible workaround?