yeah I have repeatedly had things like "yOu DoN'T tRuSt YoUr BaCkeNd?!?!?!?" come up and am extremely tired of it when it's 2025 and we have libraries that solve this problem automatically and in a way that is usually more ergonomic anyways... I don't do JS/TS so I guess just casting the result of JSON.parse is sort of more convenient there, but come on...