Agreed.

I like CSS, but the article (while interesting and informative) give me PTSD thinking about a previous project with "typed" CSS. Maybe I'm an old fart, but I never saw the appeal in having such a thorough level of typing.

The downside is longer time to analyse your Typescript code, having to reference some ungodly type if you need to pull your value from a config file, while the upside is just... something that most IDE already did anyway?

In most case, I'm pretty sure it's less of an hassle to say it's a damn string and check that your code give some correct value there, instead of trying to rube-goldberg Typscript into auto-generating the correct code.

Typescript is powerful, but KISS is good too.