[Hendrikto]

People do not seems to have any trouble producing unreadable and unmaintainable code in statically-typed compiled languages.

[DoctorDabadedoo]

Not at all, but having been on the "dynamically typed spaghetti code with very obscure paths/interactions and no test coverage" refactor wagon, I would take a statically typed option any day.

[cies]

Indeed the quality to look for is strong typed, not statically typed.

Strong typed code is much easier to refactor.

[renox]

Unfortunately this requires some 'buy in' from the managers which means that many programs are integer/string typed instead of being strongly typed..