Only facts here. I think most large codebases eventually see type hints drift away from reality as individual contributors are more incentivized to hack in `An

Only facts here. I think most large codebases eventually see type hints drift away from reality as individual contributors are more incentivized to hack in `Any` types to make things compile instead of typing every line properly. This is especially common for handling data objects which come in over the network - often they can have a couple different types but people just type it as one thing for simplicity. Overall I do think type hints are worth it though, for maybe two benefits. They force you to look at the ridiculous types you are using, like `List[Union[None, str, List[Dict[str, str]]]]` which is the sort of thing that happens in codebases all the time. It adds just enough friction to push people to make explicit dataclasses or simplify function returns, which is good. Secondly they help with tracking functions which return None, which is a pain when following callstacks in big codebases.