Yes, the sad part is that some people experienced early TypeScript that for some reason had the idea of forcing "class" constructs into a language where most people wasn't using or needing them (and still aren't).

Sometimes at about TypeScript 2.9 finally started adding constructs that made gradual typing of real-world JS code sane, but by then there was a stubborn perception of it being bad/bloated/Java-ish,etc despite maturing into something fairly great.

I like Typescript :)