What, to you, is an ultra strong type system? Both OCaml and Haskell are used in plenty of non academic contexts. Do you mean something like Coq or F*?
I don't see many GAFAM products created in any functional language, even those with primitive type systems. Are you sure it is the type system that is scaring people away?
You don't see many GAFAM products created in either, and that's because of the trade off OP talks about.