I think the conversation becomes a lot easier once you recognize that there is no such thing as untyped data. There's only explicit typing and implicit typing.

I think the conversation becomes a lot easier once you recognize that there is no such thing as untyped data. There's only explicit typing and implicit typing. So the only real argument you're having with someone is when writing a piece of code, do they want the caller of the code or the input of the code's data type to be known or they want the data type to be a mystery to be figured out, occasionally in production when shit hits the fan.