i'm not a fan of ts either, but can see the appeal for business. of course it is bolted on ... like almost everything on the web, which is a complete frankenstein. but it works, and truth is there is no other alternative yet. otoh it is performant and efficient enough for almost anything these days.

coding in go (or whatever) and transpiling is just an extra step on top of that. not without benefits, mind! there are surely many situations where that is appropriate. but that still doesn't mean it is universally the "right thing". which brings me to:

> just to avoid learning or making a new language

there simply is no "one language to rule them all" nor there ought to be one. my entire career has been about learning different languages, techniques, tools, systems, environments and workflows. lots of them, nearly non stop. javascript has its nice place, and i like it vanilla, in all its weirdness and unapologetic untypedness. :)