It is! I’ve been working in an environment that essentially requires us to type as we code (rules against using the “any” and “unknown” types) that in just used to them being enforced now lol. So I suppose my point is moot, as the tediousness isn’t forced by the language necessarily.

It's also considered by many to be an antipattern to add a type that is otherwise inferred. For a trivial example,

let x: number = 6;

You should instead allow the compiler to infer where it can and do

let x = 6;

Inference doesn't work across function calls like it does (did?) in Flow, which is a good thing, so those always need to be typed.

If you wanted the type of x to be 6 instead of number, you would use

let x = 6 as const;