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But if typescript requires you to use a specific editor to be easy to use, that is a problem.

All that VSCode is doing under the hood is `npm install --dev @types/<package-name>` it is not requiring you to use VSCode to get those types.

Yes, but that's an abstraction that VS Code removes.

I envision, with all this no-code babble, that the future "average coder" of 10 years from now will be a click-monkey.

Sadly, most people like not knowing things. I theorize that it empowers them to keep their brain free of potentially useless clutter.

You are describing the web developer today.

I guess I've overestimated today's web devs. Shame on me.