I think your description of linting can be true, but not necessarily for every eslint configuration. I feel that I've landed on configs that feel useful to myself and the rest of the devs in the team. Even with a rule set that contains many rules that can look nit picky at first glance, no one complains since they are auto fixable, and fixing is a part of a commit hook.
There are a handful of rules that are nice to have in a TypeScript project to make sure devs don't do things that break type safety. Plus some that avoids mistakes from slipping through (even though the code is reviewed).
One thing I've found super useful is to have @typescript-eslint/ban-ts-comment enabled, but configured so that you can still use @ts-expect-error and the others as long as you provide a comment when doing so. This is so nice when doing code reviews, either someone has provided a very good reason for the exception, or it is clear that the same result could have been achieved with a better approach. Same goes for disabling eslint rules inline in a file, also allowed if commented. I feel that this is a very good compromise between being strict with linting, but also not letting linting get in the way.
Yeah there is like one rule that I often try to fix, the “no non-null assertions” rule (some.property!), because it often leads to bugs. I kind of wish you could just disable non-null assertions at the compiler level really. Maybe strict mode should do that.
I can’t think of any other lint rules I find valuable. For the giant mass of node_modules you need to run eslint, I think its cost-benefit is pretty darn terrible.
There are a handful of rules that are nice to have in a TypeScript project to make sure devs don't do things that break type safety. Plus some that avoids mistakes from slipping through (even though the code is reviewed).
One thing I've found super useful is to have @typescript-eslint/ban-ts-comment enabled, but configured so that you can still use @ts-expect-error and the others as long as you provide a comment when doing so. This is so nice when doing code reviews, either someone has provided a very good reason for the exception, or it is clear that the same result could have been achieved with a better approach. Same goes for disabling eslint rules inline in a file, also allowed if commented. I feel that this is a very good compromise between being strict with linting, but also not letting linting get in the way.