[shadowgovt]

Based on how two of the four points key into it, I think the author is stuck using a tool in their tool chain that doesn't support TypeScript and has been bitten by that tool doing something Byzantine in response to TypeScript-generated code.

That's a problem a lot of developers won't have. I've covered a lot of ground without ever finding a tool that either hasn't been retrofit to support TypeScript or that has issues that are tickled by TypeScript generated code. My blunt recommendation if somebody hits that problem is to find a better tool.