*A big part of this is the shortsightedness of the companies themselves. There a...

A big part of this is the shortsightedness of the companies themselves. There are steps you can take to ensure that you can manage types in dynamic languages. Very often, companies simply don't take these steps. It's not programmers that need babysitting by tools. It's big enterprise.

I am not at liberty to discuss details, but I would be shocked if your theory was an accurate explanation of the data that I saw.