This is a set of statements that strike me as pretty unreflective of the state of things these days. I have slung a lot of Ruby in my life and I literally-not-figuratively stopped the second I laid my hands on TypeScript because we've hit the point where gradual static typing is both easily available and super easy to work with. (And there's also Rust, which can scratch a whole different set of itches that I don't happen to personally have.)
If your idea of static typing is Java or Go or "something", if your idea of it is that it's for "giant orgs" and not improving your own correctness and throughput of code (I write better code, faster, in TypeScript than I ever did in Ruby!), yeah, it might not make sense. But that's a pretty out-of-date take, I think, and the wins the suitably plastic individual can get, even on a solo or small-team project, are significant.
If your idea of static typing is Java or Go or "something", if your idea of it is that it's for "giant orgs" and not improving your own correctness and throughput of code (I write better code, faster, in TypeScript than I ever did in Ruby!), yeah, it might not make sense. But that's a pretty out-of-date take, I think, and the wins the suitably plastic individual can get, even on a solo or small-team project, are significant.