>From my personal experience, the saving in development time is very much real.

But your personal experience is comparing expressive languages to unexpressive languages, and then making the mistake of thinking you are comparing dynamically typed languages to statically typed languages. What does .net's ugly (in your opinion) API have to do with static typing? Factory-Factory-Factory patterns is a joke even in java, but it also has nothing to do with static typing at all.

>By the way, it sounds like I'm an ignorant dynamically-typed lover. I'm not

Well, you are repeating the most commonly used and easily debunked strawman, so it really does sound like ignorance. Have you used a modern statically typed language? If not, by definition you are in fact ignorant.