@4fed6283 "because it pollutes the code with type gymnastics that add ever so little joy to my development experience, and quite frequently considerable grief. Things that should be easy become hard, and things that are hard become `any`."

Sounds like DHH just doesn't know how to write very good Typescript... If you're slapping 'any' on everything and letting the type system dictate your code instead of the other way around, you're doing it wrong and in for a bad time.