The benefits of strict are still the same: once the code grows bigger you have alll kinds of guarantees built into the software, that JS/Py/Bash/C needs lots of test achieve the same.
Since writing code is cheap, it like to go more on the tests and the strong typing, simply because it is so cheap. Why write Ruby/Py/JS when you can write Haskell/Kotlin/Rust? There's simply no reason not to be doing TDD these days.