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> Of course OOP can be taken to extreme complexity and then lose its usefulness.

The type bike shedding that seems to inevitably occur in typescript discussions has completely turned me off of it.

Now that I'm self-employed, I just use JSDoc comments and an IDE that warns me when I break the definitions.

Much faster iteration, much easier to debug, and no wasted meetings moralizing over the use of `any`.



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