That matches my experience as well. I just think we need to be resistant to reading too much into "I've seen bad code that X", because that can easily be true of almost any X.

You think that statically typed languages don’t often turn into dumpster fires? Not my experience! Even though there are real advantages.

I don't know that that's true. When the types in a program are designed in a way that's sufficiently out of sync with what a program needs to do, you can get a lot of mess working around them.

Can we say that's misuse of the tools? Sure. Is it less likely than things becoming a mess without types? Probably? Even more so as the tools improve and as the people involved know better how to use them.