On the one hand yeah, I agree with this, but on the other hand you have a lot of enormous software projects written in Python that are decidedly not simple, and

On the one hand yeah, I agree with this, but on the other hand you have a lot of enormous software projects written in Python that are decidedly not simple, and would be extremely difficult to completely rewrite in a different language. Type hints do offer some value in this circumstance, by making it easier for disparate groups to modify the same large codebase though static analysis.