Am I the only one who doesn't see the point of typescript? It's still JavaScript, all it does is making the code more verbose and catch some really trivial err

Am I the only one who doesn't see the point of typescript? It's still JavaScript, all it does is making the code more verbose and catch some really trivial errors at "compile"-time (transpile != compile), which can be checked by much easier and more general approaches, aka. code discipline, proper design and avoiding code smells.