> Maybe. But anecdotally I've heard from more than a few JS devs that they'd _never_ learn TypeScript because it adds structure they don't feel is necessary and

> Maybe. But anecdotally I've heard from more than a few JS devs that they'd _never_ learn TypeScript because it adds structure they don't feel is necessary and that just following ES6 is good enough. My guess is those were not an engineers, but script kiddies / code monkeys.