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It's an existence proof that “objectively worse” is, at a minimum, context dependant.

A bicycle is objectively worse if you have many staircases to deal with, but that doesn't imply that getting used to one and being productive with it is fundamentally and necessarily misguided.

Except that there’s basically no non-subjective evidence in favor of statically typed languages.

Don't conflate personal preference as objective truth.

But in this example, many of the programmers know the alternative (i.e they learned c++, java etc) and still prefer something else...

Objective merit is very dependent on the problem and the context. There is no absolute merit one way or the other.

Subjectively is what you mean. Typing out types has a cost when you want a REPL