It doesn't make zero sense to be, but I feel like it is strongly strongly strongly over-rated as a defect. Yes it probably has lost us a couple billion in prod

It doesn't make zero sense to be, but I feel like it is strongly strongly strongly over-rated as a defect. Yes it probably has lost us a couple billion in productivity by now, but I struggle to think of times this has had impact at any of the orgs I've worked at. People love flipping out about js's weird implicit casting rules (the "wat") talk, but it too feels like one of these things that people will adoringly latch onto as a defect & use endlessly as some buge mortal flaw, even though it's an issue once or twice early in your codership when you didnt know what you were doign anyways then you are over it (and today, typescript & linters will shield you from harm here). I don't want to totally write this shit off, but the negative antagonistic fervor & dogmatism people will adopt when they find some leverage to confirm their negarive biases is truly staggering, and an issue of great great social harm in my mind. Better advocacy against these issues would be welcome, but man, the discourse & discussion of these "defects" feels so uncontrolled & Dark Side rooted, not real, decoupled from the situation I feel on the ground.