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While the results are definitely deterministic, and play by a set of rules, most people don't bother learning these rules. This can lead to bugs in programs, if people do not take proper care. Since weak-typing doesn't give me any features, and could be a source of bugs in my program, I prefer to use languages that don't use it.

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It's not even an issue in languages (C) that don't strongly type for performance reasons, or because you get closer hardware access as a result (though these count as features themselves). The problem is that in Javascript, you don't get either of these -- there's no benefits, there are only new bug vectors. This wouldn't be as big of an issue if the default coercion behaviour was generally helpful, but it's not. It's just a pain.

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