Comment by remolueoend

'any' has always been intended as an escape hatch, so no abuse here [1]. The type representing the set of all possible values (the top type in the type lattice) is 'unknown'.

[1] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/2/everyday-type...

[2] https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/release-notes/t...