I used to be a die-hard destructurer! I liked the readability aspect, but ultimately two core problems emerged that pushed me towards dot-accessors:

1. It's highly verbose, especially in a language like TypeScript where you're often defining properties in types and then destructuring the same properties, making the whole thing look quite duplicative.

2. If you're passing an object through different functions doing similar things, I would quite often have to rename a destructured property in TypeScript because I would want to reuse the same name in a function-scoped variable.

I think for exhaustive switches, destructuring can be fine, but in general as long as you've got a well-defined set of types backing everything up, dot-access is neater.

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Also on the point about optional parameters:

> let's suppose some stations now have an anemometer and are able to record wind speed

I find that discriminated unions are so much better at dealing with these kinds of problems. Also tends to work better with dot-access because you're not then destructuring undefined properties.