I'm not actually looking to debate you, your mind is made up and there's very little chance I'll change it, not that it would matter if I did. I mainly just want to point out for others reading this that your arguments are blatant straw men.

Also just fyi, it's "bait and switch".

If that's your opinion, why did you ignore the fact that I addressed this in my original post? You accuse me of having a straw man argument, and yet you can't even engage with what I've written?

Anyway, you're right that neither of us is likely to convince the other, but I have really seen arguments that go like the one I described, and you're really doing me a disservice by ignoring the details of what I posted.

Meanwhile we have a lot of people who have used both weak type systems and strong type systems who claim that strong type systems make their jobs dramatically easier, and we have a lot of people who have only used weak type systems who claim the opposite. Take a survey of people who have actually done non-trivial work using a language with a good type system, and you'll get very clear results about their view of the benefits. Clearly an RCT would be better, but given that training takes a long time, that just isn't feasible.