> I wonder how anyone can question this. Some developers and teams don't need the crutches. Type systems are also an encumbrance that comes with a non zero am

> I wonder how anyone can question this. Some developers and teams don't need the crutches. Type systems are also an encumbrance that comes with a non zero amount of issues. They slow development velocity down for a theoretical trade-off boon. I've seen a type system take down a production system where a simple coercion would have functioned just fine. Literally the only thing wrong was the type defined and the code refused to run.