On a brand-new project, I agree wholeheartedly. To do otherwise is to miss half the benefit, in my opinion.
However, those of us that are in love with TypeScript often want to refactor existing JS into TS, where allowing implicit `any` and allowing `null` make it a bit easier to convert larger codebases.
However, those of us that are in love with TypeScript often want to refactor existing JS into TS, where allowing implicit `any` and allowing `null` make it a bit easier to convert larger codebases.