Thoughts
I feel like part of the strong push toward strictly typed languages is a new generation of programmers whose priority is getting a job.
Obviously this doesn't make any sense but that's what I feel like.
For me, the entire joy of programming is in being able to type the code and see the result. And so I don't understand why people are flocking to strictly typed languages that introduce an additional step between writing the code and seeing the result, unless they're not programming for the joy of it. (Which, also, possibly, is the case.)