[madeofpalk]

Completely valid - if you don't see value in a tool, don't use it.

But parent is saying that you should recognise that you're opting yourself in for a harder time by ignoring typescript at the beginning, and then trying to retrofit your way into type safety. That's definitely going to be more difficult and frustrating.

So either don't use typescript (which is fine fine - no one here cares about the programming language you use), or, use it 'properly' from the beginning and work with the tools you're using rather than against it.