I'm not a frontend person and I always disliked dynamic type systems. But I vaguely remember the skepticism when Angular moved to TS. To me it made a lot of sense that most projects at Google, MS and the like would hugely benefit from a language that is kind of a C# on the JS runtime. And in 2021 I see TS pretty much everywhere, but maybe I'm missing something?
There's no unanimous consensus that TS is all gold; some people who are fine with types don't like certain TS implementation details and in fact some devs start saying out loud that sometimes it's very difficult to fight TS with certain constructs.
Something that's gaining popularity and what I'm trying lately is using JS + jsdoc annotations more thoroughly, which gives the niceties of TS (when using vscode) without the downsides and heavy compilation step:
https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/jsdoc-supported...
I don't think type docs are useless - on the contrary, they are super helpful while migrating. But I think this trend is indicative of a different issue - what we are really seeing is more of a protest that JS needs native optional type support as soon as possible.
I'm a big fan of this as well. Webstorm also supports it.
It feels like the right balance to me, as it gives me a heads up when things don't match, but doesn't require that I go through the tedium that TS imposes once it touches a project.