Good point, I wasn't 100% sure on that and should have checked myself. I'd say there's still a lot of value in having type guards as explicit places that can be

Good point, I wasn't 100% sure on that and should have checked myself. I'd say there's still a lot of value in having type guards as explicit places that can be heavily checked, e.g. with unit tests, to form strong boundaries to the rest of the code you right.