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If js docs are a good working replacement then I can understand wanting to avoid all the annoying issues with typescript. I haven't used it before but it seems less flexible and more verbose, what's other people's experience with it? I'd have to check it out myself but for the moment typescript makes JavaScript a little more bearable.
javascript but more for philosophical reasons. when projects use typescript they always get focused on writing more scripts rather than optimizing HTML/CSS. Too many times I've seen overly complex scripts trying to solve what a properly arranged div and css tag have already solved.
I've been dealing with this at my job because a layout library was deprecated and is used throughout our codebase instead of proper css. Came to learn that my whole team doesn't like/know css, so they used this library that used angular directives in the html instead. We had multiple giant scripts for arranging elements in a grid that changed based on screen width
I wasn't sure if this meme worked until I saw what he was eating
I've been writing my own render framework and component library for about a year now.
One thing I enjoy most about it is that the types are automatically inferred. There's a lot of Typescript wrangling going on, and it gets really deep into what TS is capable of and barely capable of (polymorphic this, dynamic return types based on input, Class type reconstruction, mixins that influence both static and instance properties, event listeners based on event name, typed property watchers based on property name).
It's all written in JavaScript with "JSDocs". It's not really JSDocs because there's a lot of recursion that's not possible with regular JSDocs. It's TS type information slipped into JSDoc comments.
Ridiculously complex core Class
But that is to setup the ability to tap into inferred types. The actual code that's written (eg: components) is fully typed check with little or no type declaration.
Declarative-style component with almost no explicit typing
The reality is, no complex piece of code should be written without some form of type checking. TS isn't perfect and if there were something better, I'd move. Alliances are stupid. There are problems with some things that have not been, and likely will never be, fixed. But what type-checkers should do best is infer types dynamically.
The result means all my code today just runs in the browser. I don't have to wrangle builders or compilers (bye Webpack!). At most, I use just esbuild to minify, though it's an optional step, not a mandatory one. If I want to mess around on Codepen with my library, I can refer to a git commit directly and load the file. I don't need npm to package and release. (CodePen Sample)
"In own my lane"
I prefer JavaScript personally, but it's time to acknowledge that TypeScript has won. If you want to contribute and succeed as a developer in the JS ecosystem, you need to learn TS, like it or not.