[IshKebab]

> For example, you basically never care whether something is exactly of type list, you care about things like whether you can iterate over it or index into it.

Terrible advice not to use type hints and this reason makes no sense. There's already pretty good support for Sequence and Iterable and so on, and if you run into a place where you really can't write down the types (e.g. kwargs, which a lot of Python programmers abuse), then you can use Any.

Blows my mind how allergic Python programmers are to static typing despite the huge and obvious benefits.

It's true that Python's static typing does suck balls compared to most languages, but they're still a gazillion times better than nothing, and most of the reason they suck so much is that so many Python developers don't use them!