The real truth though is type safety isn't a hassle. If your framework/libraries are already typed, then you will actually save a huge amount of effort. When you're working on your own code then you already know the types of the parameters; it takes only a moment to type them out. And then from that point forward, the mental effort is decreased because it's one less thing you have to think about in the code.

Type inference solves all the issues where entering type information was redundant and stupid. I will admit that old-school Java is maddening to work with for that reason but those days are long past now.