One pretty stupid reason I have for it is that Angular used to (still does?) automatically converts number inputs to numbers in the data binding layer, which is

One pretty stupid reason I have for it is that Angular used to (still does?) automatically converts number inputs to numbers in the data binding layer, which is nice sometimes. It's not a very good reason, but it's a reason nonetheless. Now that I'm using React, I try to use the best type for the UX since I have to do it manually anyway, but with Angular it was sometimes easier to use the slightly worse UX.