How are you using Mongo? What version of the server and driver are you using?

Driver engineer adopting newer typescript features

What is the feauture/improvement you would like?

Enable useUnknownInCatchVariables and add type assertions or remove unnecessary catch blocks.

What use case would this feature/improvement enable?

Some of our catch blocks appear to be unnecessary, there's errors that are potentially wrapped that might not need to be. Type checking the error you expect in a catch block is good practice and avoids bugs where you catch a more serious error unintentionally.