For me, bureaucracy and TypeScript go hand in hand. There are benefits to using TypeScript, but they're not worth the problems. TypeScript gives an illusion of

For me, bureaucracy and TypeScript go hand in hand. There are benefits to using TypeScript, but they're not worth the problems. TypeScript gives an illusion of added productivity and safety but when you actually look at results, bug density is exactly the same as JavaScript. As a TS developer, most of your time is spent on catering to the compiler's complaints, but doing so doesn't actually yield any benefits in terms of producing high quality software. TS and TSLint are bandaid solutions which don't address the root problems behind what makes code bad (which 99% of the time comes down to bad design/architecture). TS simply cannot prevent bad design/architecture - It can only formalize it. It's nice to have linted code with everything typed and statically locked into place but that means very little in terms of actual code quality.