… and that's why decades of work went into things like making better debugging and analysis tools, things like symbol files, etc. One of the appeals of the web was that you didn't need to deal with that but using a compiler of some sort makes that necessary again. It mostly works, most of the time, but it's never been that hard to run into some case where it doesn't. I don't think it's a deal breaker but I do consider it legitimate for someone to say they don't get enough benefit to be worth it.
Modern web requires compiler/bundler/minimizer for js code any way, whether you use typescript or not. And this will probably never change. Rather, the web will move to use of something like webassembly.
That’s not true in general: the modern web is quite capable with native browser functionality and many apps don’t need more. Tools like React do but that’s because they’re designed around IE6, which was a very different era.
