I think, especially in programming language communities, that there tends to be a preference towards making a static language for their compile time guarantees, and this is a pretty concrete counterargument as to why people find dynamic languages “easier to program in”
Maybe not here, but I tend to get the feeling that the argument for static typing goes “it may look harder than dynamic types, but it’s really not that bad”, where as this article shows some more concrete disadvantages of static type systems
There is no meaningful debate if static or dynamic systems are better. It’s a tradeoff. And as such, arguments either for or against make little sense if the context about the situation they were designed for is ignored or left ambiguous.