Speaking with experience of the Python Stripe library, automatic type conversions, native exceptions, keeps my code cleaner. If it were a simple API, I might a

Speaking with experience of the Python Stripe library, automatic type conversions, native exceptions, keeps my code cleaner. If it were a simple API, I might agree, but Stripe does a lot of stuff and in payments, many things can go wrong. Particularly being able to directly handle exceptions (rather than picking apart obscure status codes) is a godsend.