[smt88]

There's a reason linters/smell-detectors try to catch things like unexpected type coercion, and there's a reason the web software industry is aggressively moving toward typed languages (JS -> TypeScript, for example).

If you tell a computer something it doesn't understand, it should tell you that it doesn't understand. There's no scenario where "just guess what you think I wanted to do and then do it" is a safe or reliable way for a program to run. By definition, sometimes it will work as intended and sometimes it won't. That's a bug. It's the worst kind of bug, actually: silent and undetectable until you catch the problem in the final output.