Also, we're talking about the web here. How many type-safe supersets of JavaScript are there? When you say "I don't care what language you use as long as it's type-safe", you're pretending as if there's more viable options than just TypeScript.
There is a choice on the server side too, to go with type-safe languages or non-type-safe ones. When I'm stating something as true and general as the importance of type-safety I speak as broadly as possible, because I'm indeed NOT talking about just TS when I say "type safety", I mean it everywhere computer code exists. All untyped languages are garbage.