"Badly-written" is of course subjective, but as for untyped/loosely typed I think it's a bit difficult to claim that people are avoiding using them when (for example) the typings for an obviously popular library like Express are chock-full of `any` types[0]. Including several (like request bodies) that should instead be `unknown`. I'm sorry but it's rather naïve to expect a beginner to TypeScript, especially one that's coming from JS, to not trip up at all using typings like that and a compiler/language spec that implicitly casts things declared as `any`.
0. https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/blob/mast...
