> I'd rather not warp my whole project around a typing system if I don't need to.

This sounds to me like MongoDB advocates like "psh! who needs a schema! don't slow me down, I'll just dump JSON into the database however I like." The types exist whether you write them down or not.

I agree with you that TS might not be great for everyone and every use case. But maybe you should just use `any` some more!