Your first example has _nothing_ to do with static or dynamic typing. There are plenty of dynamic languages that will fail to compile or bootup with a helpful error message on a failed rename.

This is what's frustrating about trying to have this discussion (and it's covered in the article): "The problem, in this case, is that most programmers have limited experience, and haven’t tried a lot of languages."

If you've used JavaScript and you assign all of the challenges of writing JavaScript to dynamic typing, then ya, dynamic typing sucks. But the problem isn't dynamic typing, the problem is JavaScript.