> Javascript is great. But... in saying that it has a few quirks and can work in some unexpected ways.
Typescript has just as many[1] (in fact more, as it's a superset) quirks than Javascript. I like using it (and it makes JS type-safe-ish), but it's not really some kind of paradigm shift.
Not sure how I feel about import maps. They are quite literally the same thing as package.json. In fact, converting between the two takes about 20 lines of code[2]. I'd bet my bottom dollar that everyone's going to use them, which is going to lead to exactly the same types of problems as Node.