I'm saying that I am significantly faster and more correct TypeScript than JavaScript, and I know literally no people who are starting greenfield projects in JavaScript today.
People choosing to write JavaScript in 2021 might be plenty productive. I trust their code much less, though, unless they're writing a battery of tests to establish sanity at their module boundaries and making the extra effort to ensure correctness that you get very cheaply with TypeScript.
YOU are faster with Typescript. Can you accept the fact that certain people are not and do not like Typescript?
You live in a Typescript bubble so you conclude everyone is doing that. Just open a jobs board and see for yourself not everyone is doing Typescript.
People choosing to write JavaScript in 2021 might be plenty productive. I trust their code much less, though, unless they're writing a battery of tests to establish sanity at their module boundaries and making the extra effort to ensure correctness that you get very cheaply with TypeScript.