One of the biggest mistakes that I see devs making is caring too much about making TypeScript happy when they know it doesn't really matter.

There are a lot of cases where it's totally reasonable/rational and honestly fairly safe to just throw in a well-scoped "any" cast, a `// @ts-expect-error` comment, etc.

If you know what you're trying to do, and TS isn't understanding, sometimes it's just a lot more expedient to tell it to shut up and listen to you.

Of course, sometimes you're wrong, and you don't want unsafety to leak, so it does require a fair amount of experience and judgement to do responsibly.