There are plenty of academic sources that will tell you that the number of bugs in a program is directly proportional to the number of lines in the program and static typing has no effect on this.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2898571/basis-for-claim-...

Additionally, statically typed code involves large amounts of boilerplate code in the form of abstract base classes, interfaces, generics, templating, etc. It's a very verbose code style.

It's your turn, find an academic source to backup your claim that static typing reduces the number of bugs. Cause it just isn't true.

Microsoft, google and Facebook have a lot of programmers coming from languages with static typing and want to make Python more familiar.

It's a far distance away from anything resembling good practice.

Actual Python houses typically don't use static typing.