TypeScript doesn't entirely prevent you from doing that, even if you have to stick in a few "any" keywords here and there and ignore whatever linter warnings yo

TypeScript doesn't entirely prevent you from doing that, even if you have to stick in a few "any" keywords here and there and ignore whatever linter warnings you might get. I'm happy for individual devs to work like that if that's what works best for them to get their code going - but I'm certainly not happy for a shared codebase for a large complex project with dozens of devs on it to operate the same way.