It is, but it’s worth it in some situations. It’s so much easier to sit down to an unfamiliar codebase, or to participate in a team of more than three or four

It is, but it’s worth it in some situations. It’s so much easier to sit down to an unfamiliar codebase, or to participate in a team of more than three or four serious contributors, when typescript is there to guide you. I never would have guessed that that would be the benefit that won me over, but it absolutely has, all it took was a two year / six people project to completely sell me on typescript.