Edit: if you have a severe fear of flying, maybe don't read the below!

Aerospace engineer and hobbyist pilot. So I agree with that pilot, but I just intuitively thought most people feared landings.

Landing, at least in good weather, is very simple. There's not a lot that can catastrophically go wrong. Once you're lined up with the runway and on glideslope in, you can glide in and control your lift and speed with flaps and air brakes even if your engines quit. You already have momentum, altitude, and energy to use to get you out of most situations.

Taking off, you have no altitude, no speed, etc to work with. If an engine quits, the other has to go full throttle just to keep you in the air let alone climb. Plus, you just left the runway, so there's usually no where to land in front of you and turning is where you lose most of your altitude and energy. On long haul flights, you're also usually too heavy to go back and land right away, as most commercial aircraft landing gear can handle significantly more weight on takeoff than landing. In general, there's just a lot more consequences when things go wrong on takeoff than landing.

On landing, if all else fails a pilot can "deadstick" glide it somewhere. On takeoff, if everything goes wrong, the plane turns into a brick.