As someone who has used all kinds of tooling and typescript too but still goes back to vanilla js when possible, I relish being able to just hit save and refres

As someone who has used all kinds of tooling and typescript too but still goes back to vanilla js when possible, I relish being able to just hit save and refresh. Build steps and hot-reloading are annoying and complex, and with large projects they can sometimes become slow and frustrating. Please don't feel pressured to make your code more defensive by switching to a typed language. There is often a tendency to make things more complex in the name of safety especially when there's typing involved, and it's not always the right answer. Clean, readable, maintainable code can exist in dynamically typed programming languages, and don't let anyone tell you differently. The right balance between over- and under- engineering is something that changes based on who you work with and for, what you're truly trying to accomplish, when you need it by, how quickly you can iterate, and your own personal feelings of safety and joy of programming.