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I just can't imagine how strong types can be viewed as anything other than an immense benefit. Maybe on some personal projects or a throwaway prototype or simple scripts it might not be worth the effort, but if you're working on any kind of software that needs to be maintained over a period of years, having strong types is always better than not having them. Strong types encode extremely valuable information about the composition of application data structures, omitting them can save time up front, but it's just a form of technical debt that every engineer on the project will have to pay back when they're tasked with debugging data errors in code they didn't write. So many engineering-hours wasted by developers stepping through a debugger trying to figure out why some complex object is arbitrarily missing certain properties or why the same property is sometimes a string but other times its an object with its own potential superposition of states. It's a nightmare.