There’s a lot of negativity around this so I just thought I’d chip in and mention my appreciation for it. Projects are allowed to not be typescript, and I actively stay away from it as much as possible when working with browsers.

I don’t work in TypeScript, I don’t write in typescript, and I (along with everyone) don’t deploy typescript. I have multiple different build processes in my project to remove different types from different dependencies that are incompatible with one another just to untype them.

So personally I find standard js a huge selling point :)