[ImprobableTruth]

Man, the idea that type hints reduce read-ability are crazy to me. It's like if someone told me that they think comments make code less readable.

Like, even if you think that type hints have ugly syntax, prior to them vast most projects just didn't bother with documenting the shape of data, so you had to read source code, guess and experiment. Unless you just don't care about knowing what you're specifically working with (which strikes me as living on the edge), how is it not an ergonomics gain?