I don't think we necessarily disagree. I really enjoy using Typescript these days, but I do remember getting into it and being annoyed I had to write {}'s again. These days I'm annoyed when I can't export functions without putting them into a class though, so maybe people shouldn't listen too much to me.
Not the person you responded to but yes. I have written a lot of production software in Python. I remember going developing APIs with Python and the day we switched to using Typescript all these bugs we used to have just disappeared. Going from Typescript to Rust was not as big a change but well designed statically typed languages are a productivity booster not killer.
We can agree to disagree but I've personally experienced a large Python codebase at a Unicorn tech startup and I'd like to never experience it again.