[eyelidlessness]

If it’s just the tooling that makes you dislike it, the tooling is just as frustrating if you write plain JS. If you don’t have specific gripes with the TypeScript syntax and type system as such, I’d suggest trying just using it without any additional tooling (typescript as a dev dependency, tsc as the only build step) in a project amenable to that. The biggest downside is slower iteration when tsc itself is slow. But you don’t actually need all of the tooling complexity if that’s what you don’t like.

[Huh1337]

Use swc to compile TypeScript. It doesn't typecheck (use tsc in your IDE for that) but the iteration speed is insane.