Fair enough. I can see how my statement was not very clear. I meant to say this: because Python's type hints don't work as well as true statically typed langua

Fair enough. I can see how my statement was not very clear. I meant to say this: because Python's type hints don't work as well as true statically typed languages (based on my own experience), this makes them less useful and also makes them feel more like busywork. Because of this, my coworkers (who have no experience with statically typed languages either, and tend to dislike best practices and features unless they see a clear return of value from them) are hard to convince type hints are worth the time to learn and use them. Also, let me restate we cannot pick the language. We can just make better or worse use of it.