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Description

Our ESLintUtils.RuleCreator function's parameter includes a recommended property. Relative to #5251:

• Previously, that was recommended: 'error' | 'strict' | 'warn' | false property.
• In that PR it became optional, recommended?: 'recommended' | 'strict' | 'stylistic'.

Having it optional is nicer for users because they don't have to provide one. Many users writing custom rules don't care about the recommended property. They might be writing one-of rules for a single repo, or for configs that they always configure in roughly the same way(s). No need for a recommendation.

But for users who are writing very reusable rules that should have a recommended property, they're still locked into using our 'recommended' | 'strict' | 'stylistic' type. Which might not correspond to how they organize their rule recommendations.

@bradzacher suggested in https://github.com/typescript-eslint/typescript-eslint/pull/5251/files#r1103977719:

Do we want to make this a generic and just make it default to the old value?
In our createRule function we can overwrite it with our own type so we only do this locally.

I like that strategy!

Additional Info

I don't 100% have a code example to suggest here. A bit of investigation required. 😉