Why is Event.target not Element in Typescript?

Question

I simply want to do this with my KeyboardEvent

var tag = evt.target.tagName.toLowerCase();

While Event.target is of type EventTarget it doe

Answer 1

@Bangonkali provide the right answer, but this syntax seems more readable and just nicer to me:

eventChange($event: KeyboardEvent): void {
    ($event.target).value;
}