As someone who has read code as easily as English for decades (which is apparently rare, if my co-workers are any indication), too many type annotations clutter

As someone who has read code as easily as English for decades (which is apparently rare, if my co-workers are any indication), too many type annotations clutter it up and make it a lot harder to read. And this is after having used Typescript a lot in the past year and liking that system - it works well because so much can be inferred.