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Ha, total opposite, our small company has near 100% conversion from greenfield to ongoing maintenance contracts, some days this is a point of pride AND a cross to bear :)

It can take minutes to remember/read my wiki notes on a project if I haven't seen the code for months but the alternative would be to stop trying/learning new things on new projects.

Of course not. It's not a binary choice.

The nicer the code becomes, the easier these projects will be to support. Frankly the shitty old rails code is more of a thorn in the side of the current place of work. With TypeScript, refactoring is piss easy, too.

Typescript has overall been a godsend on larger frontend projects. I'm replying more to add to the public thought and support of it.

Do you really have to?