Ha. It's not you. It's a shit show everything is a afterthought. It's incredibly inconsistent and clunky all over. I just don't try to get carried away with typing stuff too smartly.

Most of this is just the way the language evolved, along JavaScript. I wish they'd abandon the "JavaScript superset idea" and cleaned up the language.

Make the common case simpler and more straightforward, drop everything exotic, it's not practical nor strictly necessary.