I don't think there is much of a learning curve, so might as well learn it.

I think I 'learned it' because that's just what you did to use the catastrophe known as Angular.

I thought we might have the chance to move from a javascript to a typescript world, but it seems it never quite fully caught on. Maybe everyone is still just trying to figure out how to get rid of javascript, or get rid of node, or support typescript in the browser, or...